skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least in the academic environment a lot of people are aware that, by exercising, they can then concentrate at a task for longer (hours instead of half-hour) and tackle harder problems.

That biological research could not figure out and test such simple truth until now does not mean it was not a widely adopted working hypothesis for a very long time.

What I would like to see is how are mental abilities affected by sporting conditions, for example a dull TV-ruled noisy gym with threadmills versus a soccer game in a sports field outdoors, and mindless, reflect-oriented sports such as Squash versus brainy, strategy-oriented sports such as team-sports or golf.
This chap is a good designer: http://chrisgarrettmedia.com/
The difference is growing new neurons. Adult neurogenesis was always thought to be very limited (e.g., the myth about "killing" brain cells). Now we know it's much more common than ever thought.
you can also shop around for creative commons work at: http://www.oswd.org/

These creative commons templates often have their designer's contact info, so it's a good way to find a designer based on your personal tastes
Good idea. I've added it to my user page, except that I am using degrees rather than degrees.minutes.seconds. (Doesn't that make more sense?)

There might be a bit of a problem though: there's no easy way to enumerate user IDs except by crawling the threads. Maybe for simplicity we should still have to add our usernames to HackrTrackr if we want to be included.
It would make life complicated for a startup to have a lot of small shareholders. Especially if they weren't accredited investors by the legal definition.
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Just a note concerning the <$20/month table, which is all I've looked at thus far: VPSLink's platform is Virtuozzo.

And I can't speak for any of their other services, but their $7.95/month service SUCKS.
A $100/month dedicated server probably doesn't have RAID 10 or other server-class features, but it will probably have more CPU capacity than a $100/month VPS. As virtualization software improves, I expect the advantages of VPSes to increase.

If anyone knows of a particularly good provider, I'm willing to add it to the database. I just added Prgmr.com since they appear to be cheap and hacker-friendly.
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Reminder: Cambridge news.ycombinator.com meetup tonight, 7PM
For those of you who missed the message the first time, this is a second posting. We're doing a meetup tonight at the 1369 Coffee Shop in Central Square, Cambridge, MA.

Sunday, August 19th at 7 PM
1369 Coffee House in Central Square
757 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139

A bunch of people have said they are coming, so it should be a good time.
so you don't believe advertising works on the web?
Users have rights. If the community decides something they've done is bad, they can't get mad. If one person in the sky that they can't see decides they've done something bad, oh boy will they get mad. And they'll take anyone attached to that thread with them. You thought there was a lot of drama when it came to public attention that editors edit titles? Just wait until they start killing topics that have generated 30+ comments. And any drama that comes from that (topics like "omg goodbye 2 u hackr news i are leaving") can't be killed otherwise it would look like blatant censorship and would make even more people mad.

A counterbalance to this sort of thing that works is a community action, not an admin action.

A one way to implement the community action is to add downarrows. But when someone downvotes a story, the story karma is unaffected. It's only when the story has more downvotes than upvotes that the editors get the option to kill that topic. So that way, the community has decided something is offtopic, but the editor still uses his good judgment about killing a story. I don't see how users could get upset under that sort of arrangement.
True. 1) above could be organized as a collective, in which case there would be just one additional shareholder.
Traffic was climbing slowly before the change, at about the rate it always has. Then there was a huge spike when we changed the focus. It's impossible to predict yet what the
real trend looks like.
okay, why is that "embarrassing?" i think a better characterization would be "not funny." unless the humor comes from in-jokes i'm not privy to, since i'm not a windows user.
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There don't have to be toll booths. If you think that's a bad idea, why assume it would have to be used?

Another option is a monthly subscription fee for unlimited access to all roads a company owns. If there are a small number of large companies this might be convenient. And don't complain about fear of monopoly -- the alternative is a total government monopoly.

There are various possible ways the road use for subscribers only might be enforced. Offhand, none sound especially convenient. But they all sound better than the status quo: all people in the area are counted as "subscribers", even if they don't own a car, and are all billed, and this is backed up with guns. That's worse than any of the non-ideal enforcement mechanisms I can imagine. And while it may save a bit on transaction costs, it does that by not even trying to differentiate a subscriber from a non-subscriber.
Thanks for letting us know. Any chance of posting a traffic graph in a few weeks time to see?
cmon gotta be able to delete users. this is not considered a "feature".
I, for one, would vote for you over any of the current major party candidates. I do, however, think you overestimate the need for government in some areas.

I agree with point 1). I think most people do, other than Somali Warlords and their like.

I think what you are trying to solve with 2) is better left to individuals. There will never be any surefire way of deciding what information is 'vital', is included in 'full disclosure' etc. Laws as vague as these always, in practice, degenerate to my-lawyer-is better-than-yours, jury shopping and other pathologies. Absent such laws, there is no reason why, for example, some form of 'standardized' contract for the most common transactions won't be written. These contracts have the advantage of being standard, widely used, and hence come with predictable legal precedent. And they are optional, so not everyone have to use them all the time.

Another problem is that such regulations tend to render a seller's efforts to build a reputation less valuable. A seller who has carefully cultivated a great reputation amongst an audience, can no longer benefit competitively by giving his 'word'. Instead he is subject to the same consumer protection laws as any random huckster, with the same cost of compliance. This leads to less incentive for him not to just act like a huckster in the first place.

3) The only 'monopolies' that can develop in a free world are those that are enforced by government, and possibly those related to physical resources. I think your land lease scheme would take care of the latter, and a reasonably limited government wouldn't contribute unnecessarily to the former. Most current day 'monopolies' are just companies someone finds hard to compete with (MS), or government sanctioned ones in (light) disguise (Telco's, utilities).

4) Hard to argue with that. Just make sure everyone has an equal 'claim' on these externalities. The right to emit CO2 should be given equally to each citizen, not as quotas to Exxon etc. Then Joe bicyclist could sell his share to Exxon, or if he so pleases, donate it to the Sierra Club.

5) For local roads, absence of government involvement does not mean a developer could not buy (or lease for a sizable term according to your scheme) a plot of land, put roads in place, and profit by selling off individual (now presumably more valuable) lots. The selling price could also include a contract to maintain roads for some lease term. Bigger arterials are a lot easier to price by usage.

I totally agree with you about obtaining government revenue from real estate rather than income. My 'scheme' would be a bit different than straight leases, but that's just details. Currently, most libertarians I know, especially American ones, seem very opposed to this. Most want government intrusion to, at the very least, stop at their property line. Since libertarian candidates are consistently getting less than 2% of the vote, and their share is not increasing, I think reworking some of their policy prescriptions are wise, though, and taking the hammer to some old dogmas about real property might be just the ticket.
Read Michael Hiltzik's "Dealers of Lightning." It's a little more complicated than that.
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We're letting the cat out of the bag on our top secret feature. We'll have the feature on the site by week's end (just in time for the next thing that comes down the Caribbean pike).

What do you think?
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i suspect you feel more productive when you're happier. and you have a new toy so you are happy.

personally, i program on a 12" screen and love being able to work anywhere - typically on a bean bag in the corner of my office, but sometimes on the kitchen table, or a local cafe. rarely at my desk.
He's referring to this: http://www.youforgotpoland.org/mjames/yfp/
great. Will come with my partner from Babson.

-Li
Anyone know where I can find materials for the course Dijkstra describes (or similar)? As a mostly-self-taught hacker, I'd love to get a more formal perspective, and this seems like an appealing way.
Is the increased traffic more due to new users, or to existing users becoming more active?
Feature request: on the state/country view, allow announcement postings of some sort. For example, in the Philadelphia area we are starting a hackathon group (http://www.groupomatic.com/haqsm3vj), and new people putting their info in would benefit from knowing about it.
That way we could have discounted Einstein's relativity theory after he failed to explain the capillary effect.
Here is some elaboration on this concept in an attempt to try to get some sort of discussion going before this thread is essentially forever gone.

I was imagining that the entrepreneurs who would be getting together would be in a similar place in their careers, i.e. just starting out, already had a one successful exit, or already had multiple successful exits. The idea would be that each founder roughly thinks the others have about the same chance of success as themselves.

The primary scenario I was thinking about was the first type where n is about x is about 10. For example, 10 founders can form an LLC, and each give 10% of their companies to it. The profits then flow back to them upon successful exits.

I just thought of another completely different way to do it that I haven't thought through as much. It would be to form one company of more closely knit founders and have them work on separate projects for some defined amount of time, with vesting. The idea here would be webapps can be made pretty well by one person. The company can make n of them, hoping that at least 1 is moderately successful. It would be at the discretion of the company founders whether to let someone give up on an idea and start another such that no one gives up too soon. And of course the other founders would spend some amount of time critiquing the others' projects. In this case, on exit, each founder would get a much higher %, from 1% in the first case to as much as 20% if there were 5 founders. Obviously it is a very different type of scenario financially.

I don't know if any of this has been done before. I suspect it has, but I haven't heard of it. From the lack of response so far to this thread, I imagine it doesn't grab the average Internet startup founder. I suppose one reason is that people always think their idea is better. By getting into an arrangement like this, you are by definition conceding that you might fail, and thus have to cede some of your ego.
Well, this:

http://www.youforgotpoland.org/mjames/yfp/slides/youforgotpo...
Anywhere.fm = 1.4 Millions songs uploaded. 
O boy. Steve Jobs, I really recommend you call these guys up and start talking price. Seriously if I had a spare million bucks I would do anything to buy a piece of this *up.
More users.
I see.

Now, I'm embarrassed to admit I feel like this: http://www.youforgotpoland.org/mjames/yfp/slides/youforgotpo...
From the about page:

"Play it anywhere on the best web music player"

What does this mean exactly? In what sense is it the best?
You seem to be asserting that consumers are not better off with the airlines deregulated. Although I hate air travel and everyone likes to complain about it, I don't think you can argue that, as government has been removed from airline regulation, air travel has become vastly more cheaper and available to more people and that it is possible to reach many more locations by plane.

Similarly for another high fixed cost industry which you cite - telecommunications.

Free markets might not solve everything, but they're almost always better than the alternatives. As examples of the alternatives, consider the postal service, government-run schools, Medicare and welfare.
I wouldn't read too much into it...
That number isn't what matters. Stickiness is what matters.

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And yet, I doubt users are leaving 1.4 million songs and not returning to listen to them once in awhile.
Joining a startup: what salary should I ask for? edit: pants
I'm coming from outside the startup world, and without much experience, but there are a few places interested in hiring me. When it comes to salary negotiations, how much should I ask for? Of course it's combination of $ and equity, and there are a lot of variables to consider (# of employees, funding status) but any rough figures will help me out.

edit: And what do I wear to on-site interviews? I'm guessing it's not Zuckerberg, nor a suit, but what's respectful enough without being stuffy?
Hum... It might be good if Anywhere.fm's buttons on the lower left become consistent with iTunes' buttons on the lower left.
OK, I'm going to tell you what's going on and a lot of people may not like it because I will be talking about the elephant in the middle of the living room. It's about the money. Entire institutions of total B.S. are built simply to make "those who do not know what they are doing appear as if they do". Plug in whatever B.S. you want: extreme programming, UML, Rational Rose, agile programming (whatever that means?!?), and most importantly, object orientation. Real pros don't use these unless they are forced. Many of us have been "agile" for 20 or 30 years before some idiot MBA came up with the term. Institutions would rather implement some of this B.S. and plug in lower paid (and usually younger) programmers. And services firms MUST do this or perish. Why pay you $100K when they could plug in 2 $50K newbies and bill them out at $150 per hour? In IT you don't have to be good; you just have to stay one step ahead of the user. And who couldn't do that?

My suggestion: find someone smart (they ARE out there, but not always easy to find) who understands the value of a professional who can "hit the high notes". Go to work for them. You'll both be a lot happier in the long run.
I like Anywhere.fm a lot. It has a very simple and nice UI. In my opinion, it's a very useful service.
Maybe it means " play it (any song ) anywhere on the best web music player ( which would be the Anywhere music player)" so translation play that song anywhere you are on anyhwere.
Then again I may be wrong.
er, parking garages?

I work on Sand Hill and there's very very few garages around here. Just lots of open parking lots all over the place.

Also the culture here is to leave the fancy cars at home and drive a high-end (but not exotic) german car to work. In fact, tons of guys drive Priuses. Not too many bentleys - it'd be considered too crass.
[cturner] we joked that when we iron out all the bugs in our software we would b walking on flat bugs :) yep! totally agree with the fact it should be called error.

[mm] I would suggest you start reading most of his transcripts to get an idea here: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/

reputedly he never had to work on a computer (or owned one)
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[cturner] we joked that when we iron out all the bugs in our software we would b walking on flat bugs :) yep! totally agree with the fact it should be called error.
[mm] I would suggest you start reading most of his transcripts to get an idea here: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/

reputedly he never had to work on a computer (or owned one)

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I hate you, anywhere.fm. I just spent the past six weeks building the exact same thing. :(

On the other hand, it is great. The only problem I have with a web music player is that I have a huge music library and it takes forever to upload everything. The other issue I have is there is no easy way to sync to my ipod. I'd also like to be able to burn to CD for listening in my car. I'm investigating AIR for these features. Initially my plan was to make extensions for the various browsers, but even just making a FF extension is a huge headache.

Also, I don't really know whether or not what I'm doing is legal. I will admit that a good chunk of my library is stuff I've ripped from other people's iPods. If I upload this stuff to S3, is Amazon going to turn me over to the RIAA?
I don't think there are any rough figures here to give out. It varies so wildly depending on the variables. The bottom line is what do you want?

For example, if you don't need any salary and you strongly believe the company has a high probability of attaining an exit event, maybe you should maximize equity at the expense of everything else.

As for what to wear, the advice I have heard from HR in general is to mimic the dress of the company with a polo collared shirt and jeans at a minimum. I personally doubt most startups would enforce anything more than that, and as such, I would just show up in khakis and a nice button down short sleeve shirt (in the summer time).
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I submitted it like that because it was unreachable otherwise due to volume of hits. What you're proposing would be defeat the purpose of the whole thing.
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> I don't just want a usable signal, I want a fast signal, and one that gets faster over time.

But shouldn't the government only be concerned with providing a usable signal? If you want a fast signal, then leave that to private enterprise. You can pay them for a faster connection, and they can pay the government to upgrade the infrastructure in a particular area.
And you don't want people to be able to make their own choices about what to spend their time and money on, or what?
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As a user, I love anywhere.fm but as an investor, I'd have a qestion about its legality because of the UMG vs MP3.com case. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMG_v._MP3.com Have you guys looked into that? Seems to me that these two services are almost identical and anywhere.fm has an excellent frontend.
I think this combination is a great idea. Thanks guys. I'll rework some stuff to make this possible. I really appreciate all the suggestions that have been made over the past 24 hours. I thought only a few people where going to sign up and already 130 have submitted their user names. Also based upon the suggestions, I'm going to add a location based forum, as well as rework the interface to show the selected user's information in a pop up bubble, with a link to the state list instead of instantly redirecting people. Thanks, again for the suggestions and please feel free to keep them coming.
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Excellent question! The most precise case to follow is the MyPlay case. In fact, the ex-ceo of MP3.com created a startup, similar to ours, that is protected under the results of the MyPlay case, which showed that digital locker services are kosher. In fact a quick google search shows you this space has many competitors :).
It's an amusing self-deprecating video. What's so embarrassing about it? Is it because he's Bill Gates and we're supposed to hate him mindlessly because Windows isn't perfect?
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Heh.
At 3.5MB per song that's 4.6TB. On Amazon S3 I think that'd cost ~$500 in ingress bandwidth and ~$700/mo for storage. Not too expensive so far. The streaming is going to hurt the most though I'm sure.
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