skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our office uses Netbeans for Ruby on Rails. It has worked quite well up until now.
Lunch break — gives you a break from the job and you can be active for (hopefully) around an hour. I would eat lunch at my desk around 11:30 or would eat after the gym (again, at my desk) in order to fit in some exercise.

If I couldn't hit the gym, I'd take 10 minute breaks from work and walk around outside, taking a break halfway through for pushups/squats/lunges/etc. I also experimented with running outside the gym but it was hard working afterwards when I was sweaty without a shower :)

If that doesn't work for you, if I always carved out a time in the evenings to work out and stuck with it, it worked pretty well. Doesn't have to be huge — do a crossfit like uber workout for 30 minutes.

Good luck!
Untitled Startup has a title: Simply Measured
Love it. Less time-outs, no ads interrupting my music (ads aren't bad, but when they play the exact same ad every time... it's annoying).
You're not being specific about your problem here. Project management is a big field. Can you give some examples of problems you've faced?
Pinout Fail
Yeah, back at my last company we added 1 outside the box feature to the site and it increased per page conversion 50%, this was after years of rigorous optimization. It's always interesting what lateral thinking can do.
Forgive the totally off-topic thread, but is Homebrew generally considered mature/stable?

I remember reading about it a year or so ago and being slightly skeeved out by the chmod and chown voodoo you had to do to install it. Skimming over the Homebrew install script seems like it does a lot of similar stuff, which seems strange for a package manager that claims isolated installation of packages in user-land.

And is it intended to completely replace MacPorts, or do they place nice together?
Yahoo has an API to let other companies do exactly that. DuckDuckGo uses it.

http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/
If you're running Linux and/or Gnome, I have two projects to plug:

Pithos is a Gtk client that uses the core libraries from Pianobar to provide a very nice GUI client for Pandora that fully integrates with the latest Gnome/Ubuntu desktop. http://kevinmehall.net/p/pithos/

The second is a set of scripts that I wrote that build on top of the Pianobar client itself to implement media keys and notify-osd support for Ubuntu, although it is incomplete because I myself have switched to using Pithos instead. https://github.com/jreese/pianobar-python
Blekko have around 800 servers in their data center, each with 64 GB RAM and eight SATA drives.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2010/12/the-secrets-behind-...

That's pretty big in my book.
Your calculation assumes that entrepreneurs and people who inherited their wealth are disjoint sets. Not so: many rich entrepreneurs got their start in life and fortune by inheriting a successful company.
A Presidency to Nowhere: "High-Speed Rail and Solar Shingles Are Not the Answer"
Non-dilutive Financing Through Revenue Sharing
Cambridge Maths has been known to give EE offers (which is almost a conditional; it's basically means you can get the lowest pass grade possible at A-Levels and they'll still take you). Essentially it's a way to get students they really want to make them their first choice.
You can request to change the crawl rate.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answe...
Since you're the one who used it, I assumed you knew what it means. :)

I was confused, because (not having taken any philosophy classes since 1990) I didn't recognize the term as anything but political. I thought other people might similarly be confused if they weren't familiar with the philosophical use of "libertarian".
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I had the same experience with hotels, internet in China: much better access from internet in a hotel than others were saying.
Surely if I'm getting "fucked" against my will, I'm getting "raped".

Personally, I think the suggestion that using words in alternative contexts somehow diminishes their power in a negative way to be very silly. Maybe I'm wrong though, and Disney should stop making pirate movies because victims of piracy might be watching.
Colorblind Leading the Blind (critique of the Netflix charts)
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Probably why you got fast approval then, most "safe" ads tend to get a fast turnaround.
I'm sure there's much more to it, but my initial reaction was to think it was oracle snubbing salesforce in their acquisition of heroku. In the enterprise (which sf targets) oracle is revered, and a robust oracle IDE does help give credibility to ruby/rails. Aptana and ruby mine are the only other ruby/rails IDE's that your run of the mill IT manager would consider full-featured im aware of, and neither of them are backed by a brand as respected in the enterprise as oracle.
There is a lot of dogma surrounding doing things the "easy way" is Vim. Cut through that and your life will be much easier. For example, I type on Dvorak and "<ESC>:w<ENTER>" is uncomfortable and arduous when all I wish to do is save a file, which I do often. Then one day I woke up and realized Apple-S works perfectly well MacVim and is many times more efficient.

Getting to the point, it is easy to copy and paste between windows using the system buffer. Just map copy and paste to something easy and familiar, say Ctrl-C/V/X, and go on with your life. I'm sure there is a "correct" way to accomplish what you are asking using registers, but quite frankly I don't know it and have never felt the need to learn.

(I know this assumes you are using a graphical Vim.)
Microsoft Incinerates ANOTHER $543 Million Online
Pirate Party slams police over Anonymous arrests
Zynga Close To Acquiring Whereoscope (YC S10)
Last July we announced that Kindle books had passed hardcovers and predicted that Kindle would surpass paperbacks in the second quarter of this year, so this milestone has come even sooner than we expected – and it’s on top of continued growth in paperback sales.

Also in the announcement it said that the Kindle books excluded free ones, impressive.
Blekko has around 800 servers, each with 64 GB RAM and 8 TB of storage across SATA drives.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2010/12/the-secrets-behind-...

Has DuckDuckGo published the details of their data-center anywhere?

Also, Blekko may have launched recently, but it was founded in mid-2007.
8-Bit Funding Helps Kick-Start Indie Games
GMail desktop notifications (for Chrome only right now)
Stores can be fairly resilient in the face of terrible trading conditions for some years, especially the big chains. So there is some lag time between a business model becoming unworkable and the companies pursuing it disappearing.
I was describing an equilibrium model like Debreu's (very sweeping by the way), where information is not really explicit. Hayek's opinion about the hopelessness of central planning is more about the role of markets in eliminating the computational burden of central planners and is very important. But his was primarily a point about the hopelessness of central planning.

When the market is for information itself, I'm not sure if Hayek would have much to say. Markets for such things seem like they should be far more fragile. I think stock market volatility in the recent crisis is actually evidence of that.

Incidentally, and ironically, all this technology at our disposal giving us more "freedom", has made the feasibility of central planning more possible. Dys/U-toptian novelists take note.
I think he meant in terms of traffic and popularity. If you're measuring hardware, "large" is so very relative. Someone's going to beat you with a bigger stick, unless you're the NSA.
I'm not even colorblind and I had trouble distinguishing some of the colors from one another.
No problem. I personally don't take offence to people using "rape" like that (since rape hasn't been a part of my life, fortunately), but it irks me when other use it, and I just mention it as a piece of advice, because people might get themselves into awkward situations without knowing it. It's inconsiderate, and that part does tick me off a little.

I come from a country with perhaps the most open mind on free speech, so there probably isn't going to be anything that gets under my skin - I probably use profanity too much as a result.

I only see "rape" on the internet and don't know how prevalent it is in real-life vernacular in English-speaking countries, but it's something I'm glad I don't see that much (outside of StarCraft 2 discussions).

I don't really know that many contexts a vernacular "murder" is used in, so I don't know about that.

Regardless, the victim isn't going to be able to take any offence.
At the time, I recall that our choices were between "too fast" or "way, way too fast".
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I usually run out of hours halfway through the month. if you are running into the limit, I'd suggest subscribing.
In all honesty Tyler Durden summed it up much more succinctly, "Working jobs we hate to buy shit we don't need."

Reminds me of the Vampire Weekend song Kids Don't Stand a Chance. Particularly the verse:

I didn't like the business
But that was at first glance
Your pillow feels so soft now
But still you must advance

In particular I think he hits it perfectly on the head with the idea that 'the man' just doesn't know any better and is part and parcel to the culture. 'the man' are just the individuals who are particularly adapted to this way of life and thus succeed in it.
Then deny everything until you are ready, but don't deny access to everything but the big boys (who are the ones with the real resources to hammer your site anyway).

I'm not saying you were in the wrong, but that is the stance I would (and do, with my current project) take. And of course, when we are ready, we will open the door to all indexing.
No worries, I haven't read as much Chomsky as I should either.

His views are obviously nuanced, but he's most often described as an anarcho-syndiclist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho_syndicalism

The main problem with your interpretation is not that the group is better than the individual, but that then the group _imposes_ that view upon the individual. There's a big difference between cooperative decision making and a dictatorship by an 'enlightened few.'
I agree wholeheartedly. For comparison, I currently see ~95% of search engine referral traffic from Google, 2.8% from Yahoo, 1.4% from Bing, and <1% from all other search engines combined. It makes no sense to let X, Y, Z random search engines index content like Google, when they send nowhere near the traffic. As others have mentioned, blocking by robots.txt often doesn't work as some bots don't obey it. I currently use an extensive rewrite rule to block those bots' User-Agents, and block specific IPs as a last resort.
The $139 price point makes them a good gift, about the amount you may be looking to spend on someone close to you. I got mine because my girlfriend was asking what I wanted for Christmas and it's about that price point where if you decided later you didn't like it it's not a huge deal.

Interestingly in the space of half a book I've pretty much decided the vast majority of my future purchases will be ebooks despite being someone who initially questioned whether books would easily transition to digital.
Hey man, I am in a similar boat and am balancing an 18hr/wk job, school full-time at Umass (business major), and just launched a health related startup. My overbearing passion is health - more specifically neuroscience so I thought I'd chime in.

I think, intuitively, we conclude that the ideal situation is to be a full time entrepreneur. However many people in the tech-field don't agree with that notion (DHH) and have been very successful in spite of adhering to it. Being strapped for time when working on my startup demands that I be efficient. I don't have the time to waste on superficial/cosmetic features. If I can't get to the meat of the matter quickly then I won't get anywhere. I have been able to use that pressure so I can speed through my school assignments and get to what I really love - which is working on my website.

It's not that I'm afraid to leave college and go full time into my startup but instead that it's my belief that doing so would be too easy. It would be too easy to quit school and spend all my time on my startup, I'd rather earn that right of going full-time when the time comes. Not to mention being faced with the alternative of spending the rest of my days in corporate America is a huge motivation for me to get out of there.

All I can say is my life is hectic as hell. Full time uni, 18/hrs a wk working, a startup, and maintaining a social life. I'll admit I don't have time to shoot the shit, I can't play video games, and the only reading I do is that which has a practical application to my business. But I can honestly say that not only is it possible but I think that I am slowly discovering that it is (counterintuitively) optimal.

Good luck,
The "Working Rich" and the Rest of Us
It looks like a good read, and the blog post offers a good online of the main points.
We used Robin Hanson's logarithmic market scoring rule (http://hanson.gmu.edu/mktscore.pdf). The combinatorial aspect allowed us to try to answer questions about the correlation between different securities in the market - hopefully more interesting for policy analysis than a simple predictor of the future.

The main securities in the market were 5 statistics that we were tracking quarterly in 8 different Mid-East countries (things like civil stability, military activity, US aid, etc). Then there were supposed to be a handful of one-off type events; we hadn't decided on them yet, but gave some "ripped from the headlines" examples that were the main focus of the criticism. The values of all these securities were to be judged by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Another excellent book is "Inside the Third Reich" by Albert Speer (ex Minister of Armaments.) Definitely worth the time.

http://www.archive.org/details/Inside_the_Third_Reich_Albert...

http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Third-Reich-Albert-Speer/dp/068...
Another rare RB5X robot has just surfaced on eBay....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=16053...
I think that would-be users should be shown a comprehensive experience without having to sign in; if things don't work when they first go to the site, then they probably won't go back...
Internet Access & SMS Blocked in Egypt as Protests Escalate
Yup. CS08
http://rubygems.org/gems/ruby-debug

Works with JRuby too :)

Just start your Rails server with --debugger and put 'debugger' anywhere in your Rails code that you want a breakpoint at.
>why has every article about search engines recently ended up talking about DDG?

Because they're the new darling, and tech types like them. It's always nice to see someone come in as a substantial underdog and make a real effort to succeed. Also, their results seem to be at least as good as Google's which is pretty impressive.
This is a good acquisition for Zynga. Now parents will no longer be burdened with the hassle of knowing where their kids are while playing FarmVille. </sarcasm> Congratulations to the Whereoscope team :)
Oops, I forgot to put in the link for a normal account.

Thanks for your feedback, especially the tidbit about focusing early on.

The 'manage links' is meant for a point game system where people can reward you with points based on the relevance of your links. Bad links get paused, but you can still re-word or modify your submission to improve its relevance, and then 'run' it again.

I was trying to focus on just the 'interests' part of the idea, but as you can see, got distracted by a tangent. =)
Is robots.txt against net neutrality? net neutrality for bots.
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some features are specific to the users and hence they need to sign in .. would a demo video work instead?
Perhaps it's because your crowd was on the winning side of that election?
Thanks for the hints. What's a lip on a plate? (Sorry, English is only my second language.)

I'm doing 130kg at deadlifts at the moment. I never used straps. I use the overhand grip for all warm-up sets (40kg, 60kg, 82.5kg, 105kg at the moment) and the alternating grip for the working set.

I've also done some indoor climbing recently. That needs and works grip strength. (Though I'd like to improve between climbing sessions, too. That's why I asked.)
Isn't this personal opinion? This doesn't really seem HN suited.
There was a society based on the principles of the free market - Victorian England. It wasn't so great for most of the population there - pitiful wages, child labour, pollution, poor houses, squalour and misery.

Free market? Sure, it's a great idea, but minimum wage laws, workplace safety, pollution control and so forth have all done just as much for our health and prosperity.
My gym only has one size of bars. But I'll give modifying pull-ups a try.
I wouldn't do it.

If you're being offered 2% on those terms then I'd rather do my own thing, but thats just me.
I've read this book twice now. More than any other book on persuasion out there (and there are a lot now, including Sway, The Paradox of Choice, Covert Persuasion, Habit), Cialdini's is stellar. The popular Persuasion, Emotion & Trust course that Human Factors International offers is based almost entirely on this book. (So save yourself $2000 on the course... and just read the book.)

Keep Cialdini's "weapons of influence" in your back pocket when trying to persuade anyone -- but especially when writing your own web copy and/or creating A/B or MVT tests of your web copy. The concept of Reciprocity is one that more 'freemium' startups should be thinking of when trying to monetize.
Just about everybody effective blocks (or throttles to near zero) all but the top 3 or so crawlers. For a popular commerce site a significant fraction (like 1/3rd) of the infrastructure capacity is just responding to crawler traffic.
I agree with your argument as far as "fuck" is concerned, but not "rape"; "shit" is analogous to "crap" and "excrement", and yet it is deemed more offensive and strong, because, let's say, its "power". That doesn't mean it should be - in a decade or two, it will probably not raise many eyebrows, but by then, new terms will come up, because people want to express themselves in the way the people who initially started using the word shit did.

"Rape" isn't irksome because of its power, but its meaning; if there were or are synonyms, they would be just as bad (assuming they weren't euphemistic to the point of complete obfuscation).

To see American news channels use terms like the "F-word", "N-word", "C-word", etc., when they are reporting on what someone said, it becomes farcical. It reminds me of the Fry and Laurie sketch in a courtroom where Hugh Laurie quotes a heated exchange, but has to replace all the profanities with words that aren't offensive to the court, which obviously distorts the picture and thereby completely destroys the purpose of it.

They already say "rape" outright when reporting on it - which they should - because that's more of a quantitative word. The word "rape" shouldn't be banned or anything like that, but people shouldn't become oblivious to the meaning and ramifications of the word.
And there are a number of Cambridge grads here, too. (And quite a few that are YC founders!)
I've also used for several sinatra apps. Their refactoring, autocomplete, debugging and unit test/rpec is superb. Not to mention it supports Mercurial and is free, what Intellij's Ruby IDE doesn't (the core is open and free, and supports mercurial, but their ruby thing is not a plugin, and it is not compatible with the good stuff). Yeah, its a loss, but they've been neglecting it for a while, so it is sad.
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Aweber is really easy to use, has good deliverability and back end metrics. Prices are ok. I've used them on a number of projects.

http://www.aweber.com
This, with Amazon reporting a $10B quarter! http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/27/amazon-celebrates-its-fir...

Wow. What a difference.
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I would LOVE one. I'm in SF.
But be aware that lots of people at the gyms (especially including employees) are doing the exercises with bad form, or concentrate on the wrong things (i.e. endless curls, and you almost never see squats).

Get a book like `Starting Strength'. Then talk to the guys in the gym. There are generally helpful---but it's useful to have non-bullshit source to compare their suggestions with.
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Pretty neat. How have you set it up to print from your feed?
wow. real networks is still around?
Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie
Yeah, don't make it too complicated. If there's a steep learning curve, you'll struggle to find users.

Even now, lots of new Reddit users complain about how they find the site confusing and unapproachable. That's probably part of the reason why Digg initially grew faster than Reddit.

Focus on creating the simplest thing that could possibly work. Release it to some actual users, and iterate from there based on their feedback.
Just because you do this doesn't mean it makes sense for everyone. Allowing Google more access because it gives more reward makes perfect business sense. Why should anyone and everyone be allowed to crawl and scrape my website or nobody allowed? The world isn't a series of black and white decisions.
Good insight here.

Q. Do you think it’s harder to succeed while living in Italy, and Sicily in particular?

A. If your target is the world, being here is not a big limit for a programmer. Most of the interesting things are going on the internet anyway. I mean, here or in Paris is almost the same. What could do a difference is instead here or in the bay area.
Congrats to the Untitled Startup team, I've followed your trials and tribulations from the very beginning. You have done a great job at giving others a transparent view of how you have come to build your products. Data geeks rejoice in your success! Look forward to seeing where you go from here.
SMS were cut off prior to Internet. All Telecomm is expected to be down by tomorrow - coinciding with an expected 1M protesters on the streets. Crackdown will be violent.
> Two things that weight training doesn't address is inward shoulder rotation/slumping and "turtle neck," something all people working at a keyboard are prone to. You really have to pay attention and make sure you pull your shoulders back, and keep your head and neck in alignment with the spine by pulling your head back and up (you might need to tilt it down, too).

I'll watch out, thanks! Though I feel that with power cleans, pull-ups/chin-ups, and a standing desk at work, those problems might not hit me as hard.

> Bench pressing can make the inward shoulders significantly worse by tightening the pectorals. I had a pretty bad problem and didn't realize it until I went to a posture specialist. Now I'm really aware of it - a lot of gym rats seem to have it.

At least alternate your bench presses with overhead presses. And do something for your shoulders.

> Apparently squats and deadlifts will give you pretty extreme imbalances in the hip muscles (that's what the posture specialist and a deep-tissue masseur told me after working on me). You can fix that by stretching. I don't know if it matters, because it doesn't seem to affect me functionally or aesthetically.

Is this true for below parallel squats, too? And what kind of stretching?