skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No the feedback is invaluable and makes you think and work/strive towards a better execution.

I posted my start-up here a long, long time ago. The feedback i got was invaluable and over the years as we've bootstrapped and worked on the concept privately(amidst our daily bump n grinds) ... the feedback(positive & negative) pushed us to think how to create this concept so its enjoyable, fun, as well as useful.

Happy to say a few years later we will be finally launching the core concept in next few days.

So thank you Hacker News!
Pass the bucks
Both the FSF and CNet's sources are making the same complaint about the proposed bill: that it allows DHS to designate private networks as "critical national infrastructure", and that the terminology in the bill is so broad that it would allow (say) eBay to be declared critical infrastructure.

The reality is, while the bill sucks and the language is fuzzy, the intent is clear: critical private national infrastructure means air traffic control and the power grid. Maybe, under the broadest interpretation, they might call the NASDAQ ECNs part of the "nation's information infrastructure".†

The bill makes no mention of proprietary software or hardware. The FSF is apparently reacting to the notion of DHS having any authority over the operation of networks; the notional concern is, "if they can dictate operational terms, they can dictate Cisco and Microsoft". They could just as well dictate Linux or Apache.

It is a fair critique of this bill that DHS has virtually no expertise in this area (despite repeated appeals to US-CERT, which, respectishly, doesn't have the requisite expertise either).

Personally, while virtually everyone else on HN is going to disagree with me, I think it's less fair to criticize the notion of FedGov nationalizing the security of private networks in an emergency. I have several reasons for arguing this:

* * * It is simply the truth that vast amounts of our critical infrastructure are privately owned and operated, and while reasonable and mostly hands-off regulation may enable utility operators to serve the public good using their own best judgement, that same regulation does nothing to deal with malicious adversaries.

* * * The government already has the "shadow" authority to accomplish these goals. Does anyone seriously believe the President lacks the ability to nationalize power grid security in the event that an attack makes the midwest go dark? Of course he can. It's better to be explicit about that authority now, when we're not panicking over an actual technological attack, than it will be for us to create de facto new rules in a crisis.

* * * There is a real risk that companies managing critical infrastructure might not realize that their networks are critical infrastructure, or, worse, might not care. We have decades worth of track record for companies not disclosing horrible incidents for fear of economic consequences. It's one thing when a retail chain delays disclosure of credit card leaks; it's another when a grid operator gets owned up.

† Systems can be designated if "the destruction or the disruption of the reliable operation of the system or asset would cause a national or regional catastrophe"; specific factors that must be considered include whether an attack would cause "a mass casualty event with an extraordinary number of fatalities", "severe economic consequences", "mass evacuations with a prolonged absence", or "severe degradation of national security capabilities, including intelligence and defense functions".
Things I like:

- I always design my apps (like http://sleepyti.me) around things that I personally have problems with. It looks like that's what you've done with TheShyBot.com

- It's a cool idea in general, and I think (especially from the tech-savvy geek crowd) that you could definitely find a user base.

What I don't like, however:

- Having to send an email is archaic, and is something I personally will pretty much never do for a service. So because of that, I'm not really even sure what kind of advice TheShyBot would dole out.

- The site could use some UI improvements, and personally I would rewrite it as an actual webapp. Think along the lines of (excuse my French) http://whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com -- that is, go to the URL and have a random conversation suggestion already ready to go.

Looks like a great start, good luck with it!
How do you use the bathroom? I heard that although boats have bathrooms, you cannot use them while in harbor because they essentially dump the waste in the water.

How do you shower?
I custom built and shipped workstations as well as a variety of custom cabling and network equipment. I had shipping insurance through UPS for every order, a waste of money it turned out.

They wrecked 6 shipments in a row, and refused to pay up on the insurance. Couldn't get a lawyer to take the case (small town at the time).

PayPal froze our accounts because people complained about the broken equipment that was shipped, and due to the frozen accounts we couldn't refund anyone which led to...

eBay freezing our account because we couldn't refund anyone.

None of the three companies would work with us.

I haven't done business with any of them since and I refuse to do so.

The company was supporting 4 people with full-time incomes before it went kerplooey. I got robbed and became homeless not too long after all that.
Do you know http://www.simplynoise.com/ ?
I guess I'm in the 22% that listens to either rock or hard rock...but it has to be my own music collection. If a song I've never heard before comes on, I'm liable to get distracted.
is the constant reminder that the business/income-building is a means to an end, and there's a wide world of choices out there for what the "end" is

I think the lesson of the story is that there are so many people and competitors now that running a business/muse as a means to an end is impossible unless you lower your expectations as to what an end is.

You must either lower your expectation by living in 3rd world countries as Ferris suggests, or work 7-days a week like Tim Ferris did on his herbal supplement company. Or be plain lucky and find a niche that no one has found out like the ones shown here. Most niche ideas fail.
I used to be an individual office partisan, but after working for a coupla years in cubes with walls that come to a sitting person's neck, I find that there are a lot of benefits: I can just turn (and scoot across my cube, if necessary) to ask or answer questions of a co-worker; I can hear when people begin chattering, which is a sign that something is going on that I need to pay attention to, like the site being down or a discussion about some coding question; I have long lines of sight in at least some directions, which is nice for my psychological well-being, especially in contrast to some office without an outside window.

The main thing, though, is serendipity: overhearing party A ask party B a question to which party B doesn't know the answer, but I do, or hearing people planning to have a meeting I'd want to be in, but which they don't know I'd want to attend, etc. A closed office would be slightly more useful when head-down coding for hours or days at a time, but so much of my time as a developer is spent chatting about coding, helping people solve language or environment problems, talking with users who wander in looking for help, and other miscellaneous interpersonal activity that a closed office would hamper my job quite a lot.
Yeah, you really want bi-directional syncing with the bbdb, because bbdb does nice autosnarfing and whatnot. That's a bit of a sticky wicket (understatement of the morning). It doesn't help that the bbdb code is largely incomprehensible.
If I recall there was some mention of you possibly writing an how-to style eBook about your experience?
A dutch built steel canal boat. There's a link to a picture elsewhere in the thread. Covered in ice...

Overall I'm happy and would buy the same kind of boat again. The Dutch build excellent boats and have for centuries. The only thing that bothers me is that since it's a canal boat it has very low draft (0.8 meters) and almost no keel which is great if you're sailing in canals that aren't very deep, but makes for a pretty rocky ride once you hit some real waves.

I'd never buy a wooden boat, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone that doesn't work professionally with wood.
I didn't mention because I have not tried yet, some people suggested it in Reddit. I'll try it some of these days, the problem is that configuring it in Mac OS will take me more time (probably!) than I have this week. But it is something I have in my list, thanks for reminding me of it ;)
Give me some Synth Pop anytime when I am working. I don't mind the words for two reasons: 1) usually they are distorted enough for me not to really understand them or 2) I know the song so much singing along is a nice break.

Try out some Hot Chip next time you are in the coding zone and tell me you are not in love ;-)
Those hitting the access wall can access NYT articles through Google News, by doing a search for the headline:
http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&...
You're right - the memory of HN is excellent :-)

I've kind of shelved it for now since I'm pretty busy doing other things, but I hope that I'll have time to do it within the next year sometime. I don't think it's a great way of making money though, so it's not a top priority. More like a hobby project.
This is not to say that Go doesn't have a lot to teach me; it's just that I would be more interested in the semantics of building large systems in a language/environment that's utterly alien from those I've done before.
Basis of the undermining effect of monetary reward on intrinsic motivation
You can't exactly sort "in place" in functional languages like F#/Haskell... at least trivially.
Facebook Valuation Rises To $52.1 Billion In Latest Auction
It demonstrates that the performance tax is present, but not significant.
I usually end up listening to bands like Sunn or Om. Super slow, heavy, and they don't take over what I'm doing.

When I put on faster paced metal of any variety I find myself tapping my feet with the bass drums and then tapping with my fingers, then I'm hooked.
Most bigger boats have a holding tank for grey water and a water tank for fresh water. When you shower you use the fresh water and dump it into the harbour, it's not that dirty just because you've showered. When you go to the toilet you use saltwater to flush and flush it into the greywater tank, which you can then empty either by having it sucked out (All European ports are required by law to have equipment for doing so, though many don't) or dump it into the ocean once you're more than 12 miles off the coast.

Simple :-)
While that's probably all true about what we call the "Socratic method", the actual method used by Socrates ends up a lot closer to that quote. If you read any of the authentic Socratic dialogues, that's where they all end up.
"Make sure that you have your business basics down first. Proper business bank account(s), incorporate earlier, record expenses properly, keep receipts, and get your accounting straight. It’s very hard to switch things over later, so invest some time at the outset and get it right."

How hard is it to switch from sole proprietorship to s-corp/llc if you keep your accounting straight and use your personal bank account?
From Hobbie To 10 Years Of Business With Threadless Co-Founder Jake Nickell
Really informative interview on how Google launches startups from within.
My wife and I were in a similar situation when we graduated college - she had a degree in agriculture development and I had a degree in information systems. Back in 1999, we couldn't have had two farther apart career paths - agriculture in small towns and technology in the major cities.

Instead, we decided to create our own jobs and blend our skills together. The result was several agriculture software programs that have been sold in over 55 countries. This business has been our main source of income for the last 10 years and allowed us both to work from home and raise our family.

Living near College Station, TX (home of Texas A&M University), I volunteer to work with students often and am seeing more and more students that want a financially rewarding and satisfying career while maintaining a lifestyle balance. In many cases, entrepreneurship offers the best chance of achieving this goal as you are in a position to decide which opportunities you pursue and which you pass.
Stop pretending there isn't something horribly wrong with the company just because it suits your rhetoric.

This sort of trollish nonsense has no place on HN.

I built a banking AML system (not for PayPal, which is a company that I have zero affiliation or interest in). I know the incredible burden that the financial industry lives under, and to say that PayPal -- which is absolutely the wild-west of payment systems (it exists for a reason, often serving those organizations who in many cases would have had trouble getting a merchant account) -- goes "above and beyond" is patently ridiculous. No seriously, file that patent, because you nailed it.

Some subsection of users have trouble with a large organization. Big whoop.
I've written a decompiler with a custom template for the 6502 (the idea is all CPUs are fundamentally the same, from x86 to 6502, so you just define a CPU as instructions affecting flags, etc, and have custom functions for, eg., Vax CPUs).

So I reverse engineer a C64 game by first decompiling the assembly code into vanilla C, without any definitions or names. Then I do things like make the emulator refuse to write to an address I'm curious about. Then I can see what the address does, and make a definition (a name!) for that address.

What you get in the end is C-like code with all your definitions making it readable as the original source code.

The only problem I'm having is a really robust flow-control system - JMPs can get hard to parse if they're crazy. But other than that, RightBack is a great decompiler. It's also written in Common Lisp.
Hi, antirez, I am really curious about upcoming Redis Cluster. Can we upgrade to Redis Cluster seamlessly from old Redis db?
The quote's of value even out of context and I'd forgotten where I'd read it before. When I came across it on this guy's blog, I posted. Thanks for the link to the original essay, though.
I wouldn't say introspection was harder for introverted and I definitely would have no reference for that.

It's just that introversion is a personality trait whose meaning was overloaded by pop-culture and pop-psychology. Stuff by Freud, Jung, Eyesenck, Myers-Briggs, etc. is useful to know as much as it is useful to know about the work done at Xerox in the 70s and 80s. Informative and a foundation for later work, but by no means current.

This
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator#Rel...

will tell you about just how inaccurate it is to take a classic test like MBTI. While there is something to be said about personality traits and nature vs nurture, Psychological Types are so 1923.

There was a lot more concrete research done in the last 20 years on depression and related mood disorders as it is somewhat of a modern-day plague (OK plague is too harsh, can someone help me with a disease analogy here?).
I think oomwriter (http://www.ommwriter.com/en/) is a good demonstration of ambient music and typing sounds. Sadly the editor sucks for coding and I deal with three platforms, not just Mac.

I freaking love this little music track from oomwriter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbwNmPK9kGA

I've been trying to assemble a collection of similar ambient music and haven't yet figured out the magic words to feed Google.

Edit: Oh hey, the youtube vid mentions the composer put together an album. Must buy.
Now another 19 year old arrested http://bit.ly/grstDw
I'm surprised hip hop isn't on the chart at all. Am I the only one who listens to it while coding? I switch between that and hard rock.

I've never really had any problems with words in music being a distraction. I read somewhere that singing and talking/writing are two completely separate parts of the brain, which is why some stroke or brain damage are able to sing before they can talk.

Also, I prefer speakers to headphones, which is one of the reasons I opted for an actual office instead of working out of a coworking space.
If you're good at data and visualization, and you've got a creative streak, the world is yours. The entire future information economy sits right at the intersection of art, design and heavyweight statistics.

(Don't drop your stats and English literature classes – they'll be more useful than you think.)

Go for it. And in a few years, when you're looking for an internship in the UK, drop me a line...
Unless the target market is techie/entrepreneur, I can't imagine anyone using HN as a marketing tool. Instead, I think most "Show HN" posts are requests for feedback from an audience who is generally pretty smart about UX/marketing/conversion.

As for competition, any Show HN posts that show off successful sites are successful because of a lot of reasons. I haven't seen a rash of Bingo Card Creator competitors or Balsamiq competitors-- and they are two of the most open "Show HN" guys that I can think of. Their businesses are continuing to prosper/grow.
If you ever checked out TinyOS (for embedded system), you will like their idea a lot. The main premise about TinyOS is to wrap a thin layer of necessary (by "necessary" it means, for example, if you only used TCP/IP in the app, it won't pack UDP support into) OS component along with your application and write the generated binary to the ROM directly.
Tutti - Interactively run Javascript on multiple browsers
I just came from S.E Asia after 3 years. its pretty gritty there so you must watch out. Where will you be and what will you do exactly?
I still prefer using Socratic Method, because of how deeply and thoroughly a student understands the matter once the inquiry is over with.

But yes, unfortunately, it drives people nuts, unless they have a penchant for this sort of thing.

Even if it drives them nuts, it works, albeit the student tends to lose focus if s/he gets upset or frustrated and so the whole thing can take a long time.
Call me cheap... $1 per reservation does sound like quite a hit for a low-margin business.
It really depends on the situation. If I have a clear direction to go in music can help keep me in the zone, especially jazz. If I'm unsure, it can just be distracting.
... Or by registering for free and signing in. You won't have to do anything else until you delete your cookies or change computers/browsers.
Yes, but with a big conditional ;) That is: if you are not using multi-keys operations, or your multi-key operations have great locality so that you can use "hash tags" (http://antirez.com/post/Sorting-in-key-value-data-model.html), then it is an easy upgrade.

We should release ASAP guidelines to make sure current users are designing schemas that can run into Redis Cluster with little efforts.
I've done salsa, but always preferred swing. At least in Philly, the salsa crowd takes it self far more seriously, and the swing dancing crowd seems to attract more of an intellectual crowd.

On the same note, the salsa events tend to be at nightclubs/bars, while the swing events are at dance floors. I suspect I just prefer the environment.
I echo your tastes, probably. I bounce around from The Prodigy to Nine Inch Nails to A Tribe Called Quest, to Tool or Rage Against the Machine.

And I find listening to music of any kind helps me fall into zone-coding a lot faster.
Consider striking the first two sentences and the last sentence from this comment.
Stuxnet Worm Still Out of Control at Iran's Nuclear Sites
It's $1 per seat reserved, so 4 people is $4.
That sounds impressive.

A lot of really impressive C64 code is timing sensitive. The coder counts exact number of cycle a piece of code takes and attempts to, for example, synchronize it to the CRT rasterbeam, because the horizontal and vertical refresh frequency are known and because there is a VBL interrupt.

So for example you change the background color at just the right time as the rasterbeam renders the screen to get a rainbow. Similar stuff is done with quickly changing sprites so that you can get way above the, I don't know, 8 or so sprites that are supposed to be the max possible to do in hardware.

You would lose insight into this by converting the code to C.
Clockspot was actually the one example that did resonate with me, as I'm working toward a similar kind of soup-to-nuts one-man app stack that he did in creating a time-clock with mobile clients. I mean, it's straightforward and doesn't involve Hard Problems other than having to use at least a couple different and possibly-newish languages, right? It's seems to be pretty much a textbook REST app.

I also really like seeing improved and successful implementations of existing technology, proven in the story by the example of his dad being perfectly willing to get a punch style timeclock in this day and age. And not only is Clockspot able to leverage the history of timeclocks, it can also be seen to be a kind of "time twitter," so all of the published domain expertise about implementing that can be relied on to provide another huge chunk of the app and mobile clients.

Which is why software patents are bad. ;)
I show most of my creations to a friend of mine who is an IT entrepreneur. He is not in my target group, but he knows the subject of usability well and that allows him to give me good points for improvement. Showing things to HN is similar.

Also it's the best possible market research. You show what you did to people and people tell you of similar things that already exist. No kind of passive surfing or googling can beat that.
When Wrinkle-Free Clothing Also Means Formaldehyde Fumes
As an alternative to rejection therapy, or possibly a compliment, on a college campus it's usually easy to approach anyone who happens to be by themselves. I made a habit of looking around the dining hall, and asking anyone solo (of both sexes) if they'd mind having some company. A few people will be busy cramming, but most people will be game.

Then you just follow the standard freshman approach to getting to know someone ... major, where are they from, etc. Keep asking questions and you'll stand a very good chance of meeting someone. No pressure, no risk, and in practice it's usually a very low miss percentage.

In practice, I think I ended up with two or three girls interested in me from this approach, but I think I was dating someone already each time. I also brought in a large number of people who joined my existing group of friends.
I was trying to use the term "introverted", which isn't exclusive to Myers-Briggs. Sorry for the confusion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introverted
This is a very true statement. My geek friends and I tweet all the time, but I was trying to get my girlfriend to sign up and she outright refuses. It is easier as geeks here to see the benefits of services like Twitter, but in the real world (and also in the teen world) it just isn't that important.
Mrs Doubleday's indiscretion