skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say that if it makes you productive, then keep doing it. When I code, it can sometimes be very stressful, so I'll go to lengths to try and balance out the stress by creating as positive of a workspace as possible. But don't fixate on it too much, otherwise you're losing productivity ;)
This is only one of the most widely-discussed phenomenon in all of computer security. Thanks, Fast Company, for "breaking" this story.
The two obstacles to selling vulnerabilities are NDAs, which you certainly have if you're an employee of the company you're selling out, and shrink-wrap licenses, which universally forbid reverse engineering.
...undeniably one of the most commonly _misused_ formats...
Is this really as an important issue as The Register is making it out to be? So the user fetches your page without looking at it. That's how the web works. Bandwidth, at least with my host, is nearly free... so who cares. Your ads and javascript-based analytics aren't being hit, so it shouldn't be affecting your monetarily. And even if it is, this is how the web works. Clients can do whatever they want. They can scan your page for malware, they can not display it, or they can download it over and over for no reason.
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No. People who sell vulnerabilities sell them immediately, to well-known brokers. At least part of the market for vulnerabilities is open and "above board" --- TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative and iDefense being two of the best known.

Most of the brokers you've heard of have relatively strict policies on notifying the vendor and securing patches prior to open release, though there's usually loopholes that benefit the broker themselves.
Negative. If you're talking about a first-gen iPhone, you can download illegal unlocking software and sort yourself out. For the new iPhone 3G, no such software exists (yet).
Yeah, that's a bit bizarre. YouTube is a great example of the long tail in action. Instead of considering YouTube a hit compared to the rest of the web, consider its content. If I post a video of me and my friends goofing off at the beach, only a handful of people will watch it. But there are a ton of those "niche" videos available on YouTube. That's the long tail, and YouTube is successful precisely because it exploits the long tail of video.
"The real truth is, entrepreneurs have a much greater respect for life and the purpose of a startup is to condense much of what would have been a very dull, very boring 9-5 for 40-50 years into a fast-paced, stress-intensive 4-7 year startup."

The real truth is, that won't happen unless you hit a jackpot, so if you're actually banking on working 100hr weeks in startup, so you can relax later on, I suggest taking 30mins a week off and visiting the local lotto booth.
Microsoft Equipt: Office and OneCare in a Subscription Package
Wow, screenshots of Excel spreadsheets? I hear HTML has a <table> tag for that sort of thing.
Well as good as this sounds, if you want to scale you will need to know more then just how to use free software.
You may want to take a look at DeMarco and Lister's _Peopleware_ for several studies along these lines. There's a lot of focus on how having a comfortable and quiet (i.e., not distracting) environment relates to productivity.

Some people could code in a wind tunnel, most people probably can't.

I personally focus better with a comfy chair, a good keyboard, two monitors, tea, headphones (or earplugs), a whiteboard, and enough desk space to lay out notes. Oh, and absolutely good lighting.
what's wrong with http://twoorl.com/ ?
I've been doing affiliate marketing for about 2 years now. So far my best months have been five figures of profit (my best day was four figures of profit). But I know of other folks that are doing much more than that..
And 20,000 Leagues is so 1870's. ;)
If you work hard, make good decisions, and think hard, it's not really a lottery.

Everything in life is a risk, so it's better to try hard, make a real go of it, than to sit at the sidelines and never try.
I'd say it's not nearly that unlikely. If you're smart, you have a good idea, and you work hard on it, your chances of that kind of success (and we're only talking the $10 million payday here, not the $billion payday) are something on the order of one third.

What I'm more concerned about is the fact that the guy said he tried a four-hour workweek but got bored, and now he wants to work 100-hour weeks so he can retire in seven years. What does he think he's going to do when he retires?
Digg's new recommendation tool a big help for sifting through fresh stories and cutting out noise
working more than 80 hours a week isn't sustainable over long periods of time, if anything it will just hasten a huge burnout. anyone can work 80-100 hours a week - it doesn't mean they're going to get more done. work in bursts when you are most efficient, that seems to work best for me.
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Also for letting us know that HPUX is a database :-)
I'll second Cyberiad.

Also, I've heard some people describe Lem's "Solaris" as one of the few science fiction novels that also qualify as great literature, although I must admit I didn't enjoy it as much as Cyberiad.
Congrats! I wasn't that excited about YAEK until I realized it was you guys that made it. Coordinatr was the best user experience I've had with software because of how receptive and responsive you were to the feedback I gave. I wish you the best of luck and I will be using AnyVite!
Just because you've been a developer for 10 years doesn't make you a senior developer. In my first job, I was the junior (obviously), and was working with this Iraqi guy who had the title "Senior Software Engineer", and had about 5 years of experience. His code was some of the worst I've seen in my life. Particularly galling since his salary was 50% higher than mine (and I was on the high end of junior!).
A purring cat on my lap chills me out. A second cat on my desk helps me debug + does all my proofreading.

The perfect playlist keeps us all in rhythm.

I play the same playlist every day. I find this helpful to make it more 'background', and I always pick songs that recall a particular 'happy' time.

When the cat's get bored and want to go outside, that's always a sign I should take a walk. When they start to get hungry later in the day it is time to feed them and to check my voice mail. And when I hear my chillout song, "Everloving" by Moby, it's time to close my eyes and just relax until it's over.

Listen to the environment around you.
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The real question though is why you would WANT to retire in 10 years? He would be 32 or 34, and he will have spent his entire 20s elminating time for friends, relationships, and hobbies. So you get to the 30s, and suddenly you have 10 million dollars and what are you going to do? Stop working and do nothing? He already said he doesn't want to do that. And if you try to meet someone for a relationship - it is somewhat overshadowed by your money. Your friends (who you labeled a distraction in your 20s when you lived with them, how likely are they to be friends with you in your 30s?) will probably have moved on. You have no hobbies because you spend little time on them. So what do you have? A bunch of money and no life.

My solution - find what I enjoy working on, work on it 60 hours a week, and enjoy the other 40 hours a week with my girlfriend, traveling, playing my sports, learning beyond just what I do for work. I don't watch tv, I don't waste time on a lot of silly things, but I do enough that I have a healthy balance. He struggled to uninstall his video games and he is going to tell me that is a healthy life balance when it includes no time for friends, family, or a girlfriend? I would rather work on what I like for 40 years, and spend the whole time enjoying it along the way, than work really hard for 7 years and hate my life during and after that. Just the fact that you have a large bank account does NOT make you happy. It is what you do with it that MAY make you happy, but even then - there are a lot of ways to be happy with less money than you think.
Maybe for you, but some people can pull it off.

Jeff Immelt, CEO of GEO (http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_04/b3767079....) boasted that he worked 100 hour weeks for two decades.

I've heard plenty of stories of people working crazy hours (the Mint.com guy built his prototype doing 100 hour weeks I believe) and then pulling back to something more reasonable (or not.) Sure, it might not be sustainable in the long run - but hell, life in general isn't sustainable in the long run. Sometimes you gotta chase those dreams, regardless of the cost.
What does he think he's going to do when he retires?

He's going to work 85-hour weeks, of course!

One major theme of The Four-Hour Workweek is that, for many people, it takes practice and training to do less work. You get habituated to the stress and the pressure, such that life without it begins to feel wrong. You need to train up the areas of your life that fall outside of your career, or they'll atrophy, and you won't be able to stop working because your mind and body will rebel.
I agree. At most I think it could be argued that what AVG does is impolite client behavior. Do enough people even use this product that it's is a problem to begin with? This isn't much different than all those web accelerators that were popular a few years ago and I don't remember anyone griping about those taking up bandwidth. This whole thing seems like a non-issue.

I also wonder if the people talking about filtering or redirecting this AVG traffic are some of the same people clamoring for net neutrality. Granted, this is a little different because we're not talking about filtering at the ISP level, but keep in mind this effectively degrades the quality of a product that someone has paid for. If this was being done by Comcast or Time Warner we'd be raising bloody hell.
Second Life recently substantially cut prices for their "new" island sales. I think it's likely the decreased land sales figures could be caused by that big price drop-- and not necessarily showing less demand for virtual land. More people may be buying from Linden rather than others.

Still, not the sort of trends Linden would want people to be thinking too deeply about.
I can only assume he's got a fixed price on whatever the vendor's equivalent machine is at any point in the future. So in a year's time he'd be getting more power, but he would still be paying x dollars for y U in a rack.
please don't misinterpret my statement as hero worship
Wow. Um. wow.

I guess someone could say "You're doing it wrong" to me here. I've tried integrating affiliate adds with blogs and another site that did rental listings. I've made 18 dollars after tens of thousands of impressions.

I've come across so many affiliate marketing "seminars" and eBooks, but they all smell of "get rich quick" scams to me.

Anyone care to share what works vs what doesn't? I'm really confused on the topic.
I have many of the same feelings and the only difference is I've learned to deal with it.

I think part of what wasn't communicated in the article was that those tendencies don't necessarily go away. People just learn to cope with them better. Or at least that is how it is for me.
I really like this idea for links in general.

My only hesitation is that someone might see it as a reason to create false accounts to game upvoting. Maybe a certain threshold of upvotes by users with high karma is what it takes to remove nofollow from an auto-link?
Awesome, that had 3 books I hadn't read.

My list of remarkable sci-fi: http://www.reddit.com/info/72lt/comments#c735f
Well that's exactly the wrong way to look at it.

The basic problem is caring what other people think of you. The basic problem is placing more value on what other people think of you instead of placing more value on what you think of yourself.

The worst thing that could happen to you, is you could learn the social conventions and learn how to be a sheep well enough to fit in. Think about it, would you even be on this site if you learnt the social conventions earlier and realized how not "cool" it is to be a geek?

You talk about shared contexts. Fundamentally we are all human beings. We all laugh. We all love. That is enough context to talk and connect with anyone for many lifetimes.
Using PHP as the primary development language

I'm not sure that's true. PHP is certainly the language that generates the HTML the user sees, but I REALLY doubt all the computation on the social graph (i.e. the clever/resource hungry bit of Facebook) is done in PHP.
How about installing a plugin to compensate for the lack of a feature on several disconnected websites all around the world? You can't really convince every single page out there to auto-link, but I'm sure you will come across a plaintext URL now and again.

I like how Safari handles it. Select the text, right-click, and select "Go to Address". I believe this works on any text in any Cocoa app as well. EDIT: I now see that Safari's behavior was mentioned in another thread before I posted.
Question: What does this mean for Adobe? Were they earning money by not relinquishing control, or what?
I definitely agree with this. I don't think anyone has yet figured out the X factor that has got evite all the traction. Maybe evite didn't even have an X factor (just luck and timing), but, certainly, any new players in the field need to have an edge somehow to succeed.
Then you'll be forced to find something else to do. You can't watch TV 80 hours a week for a year - you'll go crazy. But you can watch 4 TV hours a day, every day, for the entire duration of your life. That is 28 hours a week. Or 1 year in 4.

Probably the guy will take a break for 6 months after/when he succeeds, then do it all over again. Or he'll start doing something else obsessively. Either way he's not going to be bored.
I launched Twoorl (http://twoorl.com), an Open Source microblogging platform, about a month ago.
I think how many hours per week you can work is an individual thing. I need atleast 7 hours of sleep to think straight and produce meaningful stuff (code, designs, conversations, etc).
Good to hear he's still working on it, although as I recall they've been trying to get the movie made for decades now. (Meanwhile, Dune is being adapted for the third time...)
Table layouts work well when it comes to visual display of web content. They don't work in the context of screen readers, helping to make content easily scrapeable, search engine indexing, and the rest of the ways the web are used which aren't purely visual.
I'll be more impressed if the pdf format was actually easily editable. http://rants.scribus.net/2006/12/10/pdf-surgery/
$10m company payday, or $10m personal payday? If you're looking for a $10m personal payday, your company needs to be brought at for quite a bit more (depending on number of founders and investors), so if we consider the set of smart, hardworking people, the percentage of those that sell their company for $50-100m is substantially less than 30%.

Now, if you and the author are talking about $10m company payday (lets say $1-2m for yourself), that's about a decade or two of decent income (ie, not enough to retire) and as you mentioned, what would someone used to working 100hr weeks and labeling relationships as "distractions" do with their time? I'm really failing to see the author's point to all this.
Any coincidence that OP has exactly 168 karma (as of this post)?

I clicked on this when I read "How to..."

Nice stream of consciousness essay, but I'm still waiting for the "how to".

http://www.stevepavlina.com/ has lots of good answers to OP's original "how to" question.

I also love this quote:

“Sincerity begins at a little over 100 hours a week. You can probably get to 110 on a sustained basis, but it’s hard – you have to get down to eating once a day, showering every other day, and things of that sort to really get your life organized to work 110 hours a week.” - Len Bosack, Cisco co-founder
Adobe's been opening the PDF for awhile. Basic specs have been free for all for awhile. Considering the fact that PDF printing is available as a "value-added" feature in both Office and OS X, this is pretty much the next big step for them.
After The Algebraist and Matter I never want to read another word of Iaiaain M Banks. Consider Phlebas was genius, but he's lost it.
I think I arrived at the same conclusion as you did... it's very difficult, and I'm not sure I have the one-size-fits-all answer. Would certainly be nice if I did =)

And having 168 karma (the number of total hours available in a week) is no coincidence. I of course plan these things out well ahead of time. That's very observant that you noticed though.
1 year in 6.
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It's everything.

Sometimes I try to work from coffee shops or sitting in a bad chair (one of those folding ikea chairs) and it's awful. Can't get ANYTHING done.

In fact, I think my single best purchase for my business was a Herman Miller Mirra chair. Keeps my butt and back happy.

If you're thinking about anything other than your work (like you're cold, hungry, or uncomfortable), then for sure, it's going to impact your productivity.
In MMOGs, the value of in-game assets inevitably declines. If you could short the WoW gold, that would be a great move. Just be ready for the Chinese New Year price fluctuation.
I really like reading blogs of hn members. I usually click on their name to learn more about them and see how long they've been here (and to see if they became a member just to promote their blog).

"168" jumped off the page. The universe must think you're on to something.
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You seem to be framing the issue as a rational rather than emotional problem -- i.e., not knowing the social conventions.

I don't buy it. Stick an extroverted people person and an introverted shy guy in an unfamiliar social situation (in a foreign country, say). The way they deal with it will differ greatly. The extrovert will plow ahead, not worry too much about making mistakes, and figure out how to play the social game pretty quickly. The introvert will probably be too scared of doing things wrong to even start.

Learning to play the social game is not hard: make eye contact, open your mouth, and start talking. Building the courage to actually do it is hard. That's crux for most shy people (as it was for me).

If you're out there talking to people and still can't find shared context, then you're not shy, you're just talking to the wrong people. Time to seek out different social gatherings.

For those that have difficulty learning from social interactions (autistic spectrum folks), things may admittedly be different. This is outside my experience so I can't speak to it.
Amazon's EC2 Having Problems With Spam and Malware (blacklisted by Outblaze, Spamhaus etc)
I'm confused (maybe)-- why would the "locked" phone suddenly become unlocked when you cancel your contract? Not sure I follow how this trick would work.
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Samsung Omnia proffers a TFT touchscreen display of 65K colors and a resolution of 240 x 400 pixels to have a complete control with your fingertips.....samsung Omnia is a full entertaining gadget supporting MP3/ AAC/ AAC+/ WMA/ OGG/ AMR music player.
Well the flash thing is really cool, it's awesome to have the song to listen to and because the images are pulled from wherever sometimes they're hilarious :). Really nice piece of work!
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> Secondly, the point of static typing is not merely for performance, but (hopefully) to catch some errors at compile time.

The relevant question isn't so much when they're caught but how much it costs to fix them.

Has anyone seriously looked at whether or not the relevant hope is justified? I'm pretty sure that it isn't in any useful sense. Yes, static typing does trigger compiler errors, blocking further development until they're fixed, but those sorts of errors get caught when they're relevant in dynamic languages. When they're relevant right away, it's unclear that compile-time is cheaper. When they're relevant later, "blocking further development until" looks like a bad thing.

My expensive bugs are not caught by static type systems.
The conflict between the ways humans and computers measure time
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I think for me, the balance is somewhere in the middle: work 6 hour workdays at my dayjob (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=231642), and work on my ideas part-time. If an idea becomes successful, that will become my dayjob, and I will continue working on other ideas, since they never really end, or do something else on the side (spend time with family, perhaps home-school my kids, etc.)
I understand completely. I'm here every day, reading and posting all the time. I do this nowhere else. No facebook, no friendfeed, no twitter, just this and email.

Then I go to a cocktail party or happy hour and stand in the corner.
I was going to post the same thing. Another plus is that the salsa community is filled with classy and smart people (it takes a surprising amount of brainpower to dance well -- many of the best leaders are techies).
Agreed.

2 reasons I "strayed" and posted this:

- Humor that only an IT person can really appreciate

- I laughed so hard at this, I just had to share it with you guys.

I won't stray from the guidelines again unless it's really that good. This one was.
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sequential numbering
I must be bored
Not yet, I was going to buy a 900 until I found out about the difference in battery life.
Untrue.

Now that CPU time is really cheap, memory is expensive again. For example, I have a $30/month slicehost and only get 512M of RAM. Even though I have 4 cores on that box, my application uses too much memory per instance for me to be able to run 4 separate processes. So if I needed to scale, I would either need to buy more memory, or design my app better. Buying more memory works for 4 cores, but what about 128? Probably not.
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A purring cat on my lap chills me out. A second cat on my desk helps me debug + does all my proofreading.

I have 3 cats, but they have decided that there's only room for 2 of them with me. I never know which 2 I'm going to get on any given day. I have considered renting professional office space, but I've reached the point where I have trouble working without them.

They are magical and mystical beyond anything I've ever written. If I continue to pay attention to them, maybe someday I'll learn something.
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Personally, I use the web server hits to let me know what people are interested in. I don't burden my users with javascript analytics.

For the moment I can just drop all the data from IE6 users, but if AVG is serious about this they will have to start randomizing their signature or it won't work.

AVG is a robot. They should use the robot exclusion protocol and clearly identify themselves in their user agent string.
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