skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- There is no "who" column, so there is no task assignment. In groups, this is critical.

- (Obviously from the above) There's no contacts list.

- There is no internal (per project) calendar, or external calendar (personal) integration.

- BUG: Date picker widget doesn't handle font sizes being different than expected (i.e. it doesn't scale).

- There is no hierarchy of tasks, hence there's no way to map dependencies.

- There's no 'length' (of time) field.

- Per-item check boxes do nothing?

Can you name a single advantage your app has over using a Google spreadsheet?

Something you might want to checkout is smartsheet:
http://www.smartsheet.com/

There are also quite a number of competing task/project management apps for google domains/GAE that you might want to look over.

EDIT: Sorry. I forgot to even mention the positive things. Seems I need sleep... ;)

- The design is clean and looks good.

- It was very intuitive. Bravo. Just looking at it was enough to grasp what it does.

- It seems like a really good start but you're entering a very crowded space.
>They all require two servers running (redis + a web server)

So? separating web service access to the datastore is simply separation of concerns and just good modular design. A redis hybrid solution is still going to be faster than Couch.

>None provides a framework for building an application.

There is lua scripting available in some of them and the application fx is generally on the client.

>None provides n-way replication.

Out-of-the-box Redis supports trivial (as many as slaves as you want) replication.

>None provides offline support.

eh? wtf?
Huh, cool. The Perlis epigrams go to outer space. :)
> What do I care if 1% of the population have 99% of the
> wealth if there are no consequences to it? I certainly
> don’t want to reduce inequality out of spite.

You might want reduce it because the lowest x% don't have enough to eat. Share the cake.
He said genetics wouldn't be so important if everyone didn't have access to decent schools. In other words, he's saying genetics is more important if the school inequality is equalized. You're actually agreeing with him.
The problem with git submodules
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>Though it's really no fair comparison as CPAN contains what.. 89033 modules?

Why do people keep trotting out this stupid pointless number. How much of that is duplication? How much of it is crap? How much of it is literally toys (e.g. ACME stuff)? In any case, Java has vastly, vastly more so any language that runs on the JVM automatically beats perl here.

99% of programmers will never notice any functionality missing in Ruby or Python that CPAN has.
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The 10,000 hour rule is agnostic when it comes to spending those hours voluntarily or forced. In either case you will probably be good or even excellent at something but when forced you'll hate your skill with a passion probably just as strong as those that will love their skill that achieved it voluntarily.
Convert Lego Blocks to Minecraft directly!

Now to figure out the reverse.
This article kind of made me want to get better at Vim.
Looks nice and clean. Is there a way to create tasks for separate projects? It appears to me that you can only have one wall of tasks?

You should change your email address in the footer from info[at]managewith[dot]us to info@managewith.us and make it clickable.

I think spam filters these days manage to capture a majority of the junk that you might receive from harvesters.

Very intuitive but I personally won't pay $10 for this service.
HTTP Graph -- A Gephi plugin
Do you have some data to back that up? (I'm honestly curious, didn't know this.)
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Tool to help undelete rm'd files
You wouldn't get me to work 80hr weeks even if you offered me a lot of money. Money wouldn't be enough of a motivation to do that.But I did 80hr weeks for minimum wage already because of other benefits (keeping rights on the source-code which I wrote in that time).
Loved the fact that I can get started with a single click. The UI is very simple to use too and it was fast. Some feature suggestions but probably you already have them in your mind/roadmap

1. Saving the task list. (Pro Version Feature maybe)
2. Sharing the list via email.
3. Downloading the list as excel, csv any format that makes most sense

There was a time couple of years back when I was working for a firm and my manager was based out of US and me from India. We used to have a weekly update meeting and there used to be 5-10 action items coming out of it. I used to email my manager the action items after the meeting. I believe this app would have made our lives lot easier then.
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That said, Oracle is also unlikely to do them any favors.

You can always hope. It's not like Ellison and Jobs aren't BFFs. Oracle did write a version of their DB engine for OSX server for no, discernable, reason at all. I don't remember any customers asking for it particularly so this decision had to come down from way up top.
GPL is not incompatible with DRM. The problem with GPL and Apple's store is the store's license terms.
So true

Also, about iterative design:

33. A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week.

About the unknown:

22. When in doubt, document.

Harsh reality:

27. Schedules only move in one direction.
I launched 06-10 and constantly feel helpless and lost. What advice do you have?
In 2006, I graduated from college and took a 2 month trip through Europe. I realized that travel help was limited to huge corporations that gave outdated info and that there was no one true aggregate for all things travel.

I began to build databases, polish my idea, and save up money for programming. In 2008, I had compiled and cleaned up databases for:

* Embassies worldwide including telephone number, address, URL, email, and fax #

* Airlines including partners, reservation numbers in all countries around the world, and frequent flyer programs. I also went one by one and marked all the low cost carriers in each country.

* Airports including maps to show proximity to surrounding areas (useful when traveling low cost airlines)

I then hired my buddy to do the design and programming. We created a travel blog section where users could create travel scrap books (journals, albums, video embed, plus other features) that also allows you to add places that you have eaten, partied at, and slept in. The idea was to create a 100% user based recommendation system without the big corporate glut of advertising and all that stuff.

I now have a product that creates travel guides for countries and individual cities, but without users, it becomes very difficult to grow. I've gotten some feedback from friends and family, but they don't really care to help out much.

The idea is two fold:

1) Have people sign up and add things about their home towns so that other users can travel to that city and have the ability to do touristy things and non-touristy things

2) Have people sign up and add things they find while they explore the world to help filter out the garbage.

My site is http://www.QTripper.com I write articles once in a while and also try to fund the development by having affiliate products that are relevant to what people might want.

I spend most of my time attempting to link build and trying to find & fix bugs.

I have a bunch of tools I want to add that would be very useful for travelers (pro and newb) but I have minimal funding left and want to focus on marketing.

Any advice is much appreciated

TL;DR I spent all my money developing and have nothing left over to market properly and even if I did I would have no idea what I am doing!
Sorry, just fixed this. I forgot to push to code live that took into account Twitter being completely unreliable!
Why do you style checkboxes? It looks weird to me that there are mac-style checkboxes on my Ubuntu-driven browser.
Hi grep. Thanks for the feedback. I've used CodeIgniter and jQuery.
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I don't think that while in war you weigth the enemies' lives (especially the combatants' ones) the same way you weigth those of your own. At least not until you approach anywhere close to a massacre of enemy combatants.
Loved the story, as of course, so many of you did.

At the risk of being sounding judgmental on other people, I will still say, that his now leading a retired(ish) life doesn't jell well with the story of a person, who can do such heroics (like putting a job needed board, on his chest and standing the whole day).

Again, apologize for being preachy, life is a journey, and stagnating at any point, doesn't help...I am about as old as him...have had my share of moderate successes in life... looking for more...some of the best code I've written in my life has been in the past couple of years...look to write lots more ...:)
Clickable: http://www.QTripper.com
Hi troels. To be honest I often do this to make the UI more consistent and better looking for Windows users. I'm aware that some users may find this has quite the opposit eeffect, so I'll bear your feedback in mind and get some more opinions.

Thanks
CPAN is large and comprehensive but every time I've had to use it I've had to watch a minimum of 20 minutes of scrolling compilation

Have a look at cpanminus (http://search.cpan.org/dist/App-cpanminus/lib/App/cpanminus....). Its a lightweight and JFDI alternative to the default CPAN client.

Maybe it's a question of perl putting a lot of things in CPAN versus other languages putting more in the standard library?

Swings and roundabouts really because there is no definitive advantage in either approach.

Advantage in CPAN approach: Its more darwinian. Your libraries are more up-to-date (stdlibs often get stale)

Advantage in stdlib approach: Less dependencies. Batteries included out of the box.

After installing Perl first thing I do is load a few important CPAN modules (like Moose, AnyEvent, Coro, Devel::Repl, DBIx::Class) and then all your big loads are pretty much done.
Their pre-order page stopped taking orders for pixelQi tablets within hours of going on line and the whole pre-order page was taken offline within a few days of launching. Their blog is filled with several hundreds of people asking when they'll start taking orders again, but so far they're simple saying that they're waiting for pixelQi to ship them more screens and have no idea when that will happen.
Well, he just wrote an inspiring blog post.

And he started the Warrior Heart Foundation to "inspire and empower people to live their dreams". Unfortunately, I can't find much about it except some videos of their participation in the Gumball rally.
The short answer is, do it yourself.

There are a number of EXTREMELY insightful HN users who have talked at length about doing their own marketing, SEO, client acquisition and related topics. The most prolific is Patrick (HN user: patio11). His personal blog is filled with a great deal of useful information

http://www.kalzumeus.com
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11
May I know the reason, why my above comment was down voted?

Its quite insulting to be done so, after having written the comment, with the best of intentions.

PS: If I don't get a satisfactory answer. Will quit HN. It may not matter to you of course.
Fantastic idea.... Although It's only a matter of time until someone take a snapshot of his ... and you find yourself walking around a giant... statue.
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Thats the problem with big webframeworks. Clojure uses a layerd system you choose the write approach for the job.

You often don't have that freedom in frameworks.

So learn clojure instead of java :). That will not only help in webdevelopment.
Interestingly, Finnish children spend way less time with school and homework than children in Asia or Europe in general. And still Finland gets top scores on education...

http://www.oph.fi/english/sources_of_information/pisa
With new Core iX processers now being able to do AES in hardware, I wonder if the CPU requirement for encryption will go down significantly once/if support is enabled.
Good salespeople are awesome and I am in awe at their ability to do things that most hackers don't realize. Remembering names, building relationships, and convincing people to give them money.

It's very easy to disparage what they do because from the outside it seems trivial. But I attended a sales meeting once and I'm never taking these guys for granted ever again.

To put it another way, their entire salary is based around selling your work. As a programmer that pulls a normal salary, that means they have more confidence in what you do than you.

Also, company hierarchy almost always dictates that the further you are from the money the more precarious your role is. You could lay off all the engineers tomorrow and the company would limp along for 1-2 years. You lay off all of the sales staff and that company is dead in months.
Thanks for the feedback, appreciate it.

2 and 3 are on my list, 1 seems like a good idea, I love the way the revision system works on Etherpad (curently visible on http://typewith.me), but unfortunately I couldn't develop something that sophisticated so quickly. Everything is saved in real-time, are you referring to viewing old revisions?

Your case study is the exact one I'm trying to address! It's relieving to hear that someone else is familiar with this problem as well, as it's been apparent in every office I've worked in, especially when a team is spread across countries.

I'm aware that it might seem like I'm trying to compete with RTM and Google Docs, but what I am really aiming to do is find the people who might make make better use of an application more tailored to this problem.

Cheers
Any idea where can I purchase an epub version? I try not to buy printed book and I have no access to Kindle.
Too bad. I wonder why they did not throw support after btrfs if there were licensing issues with zfs.
"Can I hire you? Money doesn't motivate you right?"

You failed to provide any alternate motivation. Some people actually take conditions similar to ones you described but they work in the greatest labs on the most interesting problems of contemporary science. They also usually get a phd after a few years.

There is also no implication from "Money is a poor motivator for me" to "80 hr week is not a demotivator for me".
Fake it. Create fake users, fake traffic, fake places they've been to, fake trips.

Creating fake but believable data will drive real users who think "this is really cool, I love User1023's trip data."
We are already just about there. My MacBook 1,1 (late 2006) gets about 2300 on Geekbench 2. A new Mac Pro gets 25,000, so it's over 10 times as fast, right?

Wrong.

A new Mac Pro has about twice the single-threaded performance, according to the Geekbench scores. Compare this: http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/339104 to this: http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/281328

OK, memory bandwidth is a lot better, about 5 times as fast, but otherwise the performance gains are pretty shoddy. Processors have not been getting much better at single-threaded work.

Keep in mind, this is comparing a cheap laptop to an expensive workstation.

If a cheap fab is 5 years behind Intel, it's already breathing down Intel's neck.
Very useful and easy to use. It can uncover really weird bugs in your parsing code, the kind you don't believe is possible :)
From a design/user experience point of view I think this one is the most profound.

2. To design a spacecraft right takes an infinite amount of effort. This is why it's a good idea to design them to operate when some things are wrong.

Designing for perfect means designing for perfect context. But perfect context never exist. In most cases your customers are using your service/product in sub-optimal circumstances.
could you name some.. we can compare with his product and even he could get some tips from em. thanks
I bought my first Mac ever back in September 2010. Prior to this I was a Windows and Linux user, and now routinely use all 3 platforms.

My immediate perception was how important design was in Mac software. It's common to see the beauty and simplicity of a UI being used as a major selling point, which is not the case on Windows.

Though both Windows and OSX have HIG guidelines, they are routinely ignored by their creators _and_ 3rd party developers. I think the fact that Apple/Microsoft ignore them gives a license for 3rd party developers too also. It was quite a shock to me when the first time I updated my Mac, the close/minimize buttons in iTunes rotated by 90 degrees!

I believe part of the reason that people like to have beautiful apps on OSX is that if you are a Mac user, you probably _chose_ to be; whereas Windows is almost the default due to its ubiquity.

I agree completely with evanmoran; the developers are the same, but what sells on each platform differs.
"I left shortly after IPO to pursue other interests."

:)
Hi, thanks for the feedback, really appreciate it.

You can create as many task lists as you like, but you're right in the sense that you'll have to remember each URL you create. I have a dashboard feature in development to organise task lists you've viewed/edited/created, and I'm currently deciding whether or not that should be a paid feature.

I've changed the footer as per your advice.

That's fair enough, I understand that for generic use there are better free apps out there to use. I'm really trying to appeal to quite a specific use case, which I believe is quite common in multi-office environments. It may be quite ironic that I still use RTM in parallel for task management, as I myself do not fit in the target market for my own product!

I do know of some business who already happily pay for services like this, but you and I probably wouldn't find it as valuable.

Thanks again.
I disagree. I know lots of people who love it but, really, neither of us are being scientific and we're both just making sweeping generalisations on an internet forum that are based on hear-say.
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Clearly you're more motivated to win an argument on the internet than to keep $1500. That would seem to belie your argument.
At that time the FreeBSDs scheduler was much better than Linux'. I had the same feeling about FreeBSDs responsiveness.

I had a similar perception with Solaris on SPARC. It was slower overall but more responsive when interacting on the shell. Sometimes I had high load (10 or more) and did not notice when using a shell in a terminal.

I think Linux got much better since then. I don't feel the difference on current FreeBSD, Solaris or Linux installations.
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Hi, cheers for the feedback.

I am very aware that this market is very crowded. I don't know if others will agree with me, but I believe the market is crowded with informal generic task management apps. The majority require a sign-up, and don't update in real-time, you need to refresh the page to see other peoples' changes.

I'm hoping to find a slice of the market who would find this app more suitable for their needs. I'm quite open in the direction I'm going to take it, but I'm hoping that the 1-click start, the collaborative nature, and the simple concept will give me a decent foundation to squeeze my way in.
Also I think, its quite cowardly, to down-vote without giving a reason, when there is no obvious spam. Look at my profile, do I even give a link to my website?

Come on show some guts. Give me the reason for down voting. I deserve a reply.
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I love it - great work
Linux is not a good example, because many (most?) good programmers love their work and would do it without payment.

But this is not the case for many (most?) other workers - they would rather do something else and only work because they have to, or because their job pays better than other alternatives.
Great response.

I did not highlight the distinction that in this class of hypotheticals that the lesser harm requires action and that the greater harm requires one to simply do nothing, to stand idly by as it were - oh my god, I can here the voice of my prof in my head from days gone by as I clarify this point. Still, the causal link remains, one can either choose to act or not (or insist that you cannot even begin to play the game as was done here). But apart from that action/inaction subtlety I have to disagree with you here, it is an accurate if not entirely straight-faced summary.

Look, you might have a good working understanding of "can't occupy the epistemological state" (oh really, why? because I haven't achieved the level of perfection of my future hypothetical self) but I find it fairly meaningless. Hint: substitue epistemological with ethical or even aesthetical to see if such an assertion becomes any more meaningful. Note: I am not saying that I am positioning myself against the "you can't even begin to play (or, I'm not playing) the game" stance or some variation thereof as my response to this dilemma would be probably something along these lines given my aversion to hypothetical thought experiments such as this which I feel contribute very little to the debates in morality and ethics.

This isn't the core point of the essay. But this is not the case surely. The essay makes many points, sure, but this chain of reasoning is I believe fairly central and although it could be excised I believe that the author formulated the whole essay this way for a reason. This post-singularity being's properties are analysed in the light of a very classic problem in philosophy. If you look at the comments you will see that a poster points out that "regular" philosophers invoke mythical beings such as 'angels' or 'ideally rational agents' which are non-tech versions of what is going on here. I don't think it's a dodge, it doesn't even seem like a dodge and the author didn't even need to point this out. Where I'm coming from is that this ground has been covered and it has been covered in language that is not obfuscated. The jargon salad does nothing more than communicate "look at me, I'm so clever" which is why I claim that the author sounds smarter than he actually is.

just a way of rephrasing the idea that philosophical hypotheticals are actually useless by virtue of being impossibly overspecified which itself comes from impossible oversimplification This would be something a logical positivist would say. It's something I'm very inclined towards. I agree that hypotheticals like this generate a good amount of noise and heat but they fail to be constructive or advance our understanding of ethical questions beyond perhaps showing what ethical norms a person subscribes to, to whit: all life is sacred and one is commanded by a supreme being to do no harm, all life has intrinsic worth/value so you shall never through action do harm, you shall optimize for the greater good, and so on and so on.
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A flash sale business model for designer fonts.

What are your thoughts?

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May we never be placed in that position ever in our lives.
No, not just people that aren't your friends. If I was your friend and found out you spent time 'fine-tuning your facebook friends list', I would think you were a petty time-waster.