skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been meditating for about the same time according to the instructions at audiodharma. I'm not sure it was _that_ beneficial for me. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. Maybe I already acquired some of the world-views he describes. I'm a pretty calm person overall, not driven by emotion very much.

I do feel better about a breakup I had some time ago, but that might simply be because enough time has passed. Anyway in a moment of emotional pain, I concentrate on my breathing and close my eyes which puts me in meditation mode (because I got used to it) and I'm more or less able to remove thoughts about the pain and after I while I start thinking about something different and I do feel better. Sometimes when I really manage to clear my mind and think of nothing, it feels good. Partly because I'm glad I managed to do that :) In general, I must agree that the idea of being mindful of the present moment and not indulging into fantasies about the past or future are a good idea.

But still it's hard to find the 20 minutes a day. I might even say that meditation is a harder test for your willpower than physical excercise. Not to say that the 20 minutes are pretty boring, in the beginning anyway.

EDIT: So I'm a little confused about the benefits of meditation. If anyone more experienced has any tips, please share your ideas. Also, I'm probably going to visit a local buddhism center.
I hope they factor in global costs. Also when the DST stuff changed here in the states a while back, I either missed an update on my corporate managed machines (or something) cause I was showing up late in the Spring and early in the Autumn to various meetings during the dates in between the new and old dates. I eventually got a new laptop and didn't have the problem anymore :D However, I do remember many of our servers being out of sync at least for the first change, and we eventually just relied upon GMT dates and did a lot of fudging by hand with anything during those time periods.
Ask HN: How to hire iOS developers?
I am looking for a firm or individual that can rapidly produce simple apps for consuming content.

We are primarily a content company with a small tech side that maintains the website (a main revenue stream) and produces custom content platforms for partners.

There is a large demand for partners to provide co-branded applications with our content (images and text). We don't have the resources or talent to do it in house.

I need to find and vet the outside help for this, but I don't really have any knowledge on the subject.

A couple quick google searches didn't yield me a database of developers/firms looking for work; and I'd really like to stay away from generic resume sites.

It's probably worth noting most of these applications will be very simple: collecting user-entered data, displaying lists of content, and displaying that content.
I am so glad to be present for the early stages of this kind of emergent support network. Recent examples from Reddit (who often choose to support people with no "internet standing"), job offers here at HN, and the intense support people like myself have received over at MetaFilter are almost totally unprecedented. And I'm not even going to bring up Anonymous.

Now that I'm in a decent employment situation, I plan to share that $ecurity with people like GeoHot whenever possible. Cheers to everyone involved, this is great news in a sea of awful.
Ask HN: RailsRumble, NodeKnockout, What else?
What other recurring 48hr/hackathon style competitions are there out?
Where can a start up engineering firm find interns?
We are a small start up, looking for interns to help.
"First and foremost -- focus building your company and put together a great application!"

Always!

"There aren't many times in life when you'll work harder than when you're in YC, so your preferred working style should be part of what informs your decision to bring or be away from your family."

That looks like an answer to me. Thanks.
I'm no expert, but isn't this one of the major issues that the health care reform bill of 2010 is going to fix? Granted, it doesn't go into effect (for adults) until Jan 1, 2014, but I thought that insurance companies will be prohibited from denying coverage or charging higher rates based on pre-existing medical conditions. Am I mistaken?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordab...
I thought it was probably due to increase in premiums on the Homeowners' Insurance policy which is required by the lender, so that they would not incur the loss in the event that house (on which the lender has a lien on until it is fully paid for) is destroyed by a fire or some other damage. Many borrowers contribute to an escrow account (maintained by the lender on the borrower's behalf) which is used to pay the insurance premiums and also property taxes. When the insurance company decides to increase the premiums (which happened to me last year), the lender would notify the borrower to contribute more to their escrow account.

I am not sure if that's what happened in this case, but it does make sense to me.
In my understanding, a lot of programs are developed in association with various local small business organizations, or with universities and schools. You could just also advertise directly, but if you mean completely unpaid, I wonder if there are any standards or best practices that anyone is aware of?
This is the government we're talking about, there's no way they can factor these type of things in :)
This sounds like an excellent use of one's time. I wonder if the health benefits of "meditation" are as significant as those of "hatha yoga", "chiropractic", or any other such Eastern mystic pseudoscientific charlatanism.

Why spend 30 minutes a day volunteering, working, or doing something else to benefit humanity, when you can spend it sitting on a pillow, indulging yourself in an act of inducing the all-powerful placebo effect to convince yourself that all the "stress" of an upper middle class American lifestyle can be magically washed away by breathing and thinking of fat bronze statues and waterfalls?

Hope these amazing changes to your life continue.
definitely go to nearby universities, but even then, you get what you pay for
One of my good friends is a mechanical engineer, young, single, and healthy, but with a thyroid problem. He requires pills every day for the rest of his life. He would not be able to afford those pills for long without insurance if he quit his cube job and tried to innovate in his field: high efficiency engines and biofuels. These aren't imaginary people.
Only $282.30 in PA. Good to know about if I ever need it.

http://www.healthcare.gov/law/provisions/preexisting/states/...
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Let's follow the logic:

Content developers own the content, but without Readability, who made an awesome app, they wouldn't get their content out to nearly as many people, so Readability gets a cut, but without Apple, who owns the distribution channel, they wouldn't get their app out to nearly as many people, so Apple gets a cut, but without the users, who own the devices, they wouldn't have an audience at all.

So where's the users' cut?
I'll relate as a list of steps which worked for me. BTW, I am not profit driven, but I am goal driven with self-sustainable for-profit enterprises being one of my goals.

1) Read/Skim through the iOS Development Guide
2) Start using XCode and IB via the templates
3) Build and run simple projects which solve problems in which I am interested
4) Expand simple projects to use online API's and free webservices
5) Upload to iTunes Connect
6) Profit

NOTE: I am leaving out the cost of overhead on the assumption that the scope was within the HOW problem-set excluding HOW-MUCH.
You're rather judgmental and cynical. Do you have any real experience with meditation? Something tells me you don't. It sure seems like if entire cultures practice it, there must be something to it.
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I agree that it points out why. Like I said, I was ready to share very similar experiences.

But once it took sides on the current issue of what to do with the national healthcare system, suddenly we're in a polarizing debate and not a discussion of startup problems and ways around them. That startup discussion would have been awesome. Posters talking about how bad the country sucks, how terrible X is, or how to create a movement for change has nothing to do with any of that.
Because they're the ones deciding what gets outsourced.
There is a difference: a Surface doesn't cost 149$
Do you have to have lived in MA for a while to be able to get this or do you just need to live there when you apply for medical insurance?
I'm glad you didn't fall into the short selling trap.

It's not about predictability, it's about timing!

Pretty much everyone except Wall Street and Washington knew by the middle of 2008 that bubble is about to burst. Of course very few if anyone predicted when exactly and to what extent it was going to happen. I got burned by mistiming my short and underestimating how devastating the crash will be.
I got good insurance in CA for $167 a month as a 26 year old last year. This year, the premiums went up to $240.
dint work, but click thru from google works

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...
I haven't had health insurance in over 10 years. I get sick, my family loses everything. During that time I've been self-employed and worked on several startups.

You think telling me a story about your friend is somehow going to enlighten me on the subject of health insurance? How many anecdotes would we need to share to gain any ground in this discussion?
Is it similar to self-hypnosis CDs?
Wow, for a family of five I pay $1200/month. And not a very low deductible. Also Blue Cross... go figure.
Or for more recent catchy term, it's the well, actually crowd: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Feb-17.html
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Basically imagine the word tone applied to the community, also encompassing a lot more of the non-content parts.

So not just the tone of the discussions, but also the way questions are asked, how new people to communities are treated, the length and style of response and discourse.

People basically use it to say "the tone++ of the discussion" to badly abuse a programming metaphor.
"I just can't understand any of it."

Neither can those of us who live here.

I mean, I can kind of understand the series of historical accidents of how we got here. What I can't understand are the politicians promising to fight tooth and nail to roll back the very minor reforms just enacted, and all of the people who enthusiastically just voted them into office last election, based on that platform.
You can't explain that!
I'm glad we don't have these issues in Australia. The American healthcare system would be one of the only reasons not to move there to start a business.
I agree, it's one of those things that really hurts the UK as a whole

I dunno, the agglomeration/network effects could easily enough make up for that, and people can leave London once it's obvious they're not going to make it, having built up their human capital faster than they could have anywhere else, and being able to command London salaries on provincial living costs.

It hurts the South-East because it puts the infrastructure under enormous strain and property prices beyond the reach of mere mortals, while draining the rest of the UK of its talented young.

If they wanted to make housing affordable, whether rented or to own they could get rid of the green belt, or encourage much denser housing. The infrastructure problems could be solved by application of sufficient money and compulsory purchase, though one would need to massively streamline the current procedures on that, and on planning. If China can build subways with stations that open in fields, so could London.

As to the talented young, they speak English, if they weren't going to London it's very likely they'd be going to the States.

This is one thing I think the Germans do right - a much more culturally, economically and politically balanced nation

Never a matter of policy. Germany was the belated nation and
it's multiple centres are a consequence of late unification and being split in half and made more federal in power structure by the conquerors. (I exaggerate the German lack of agency in the choice of West German state structure)
It was my understanding that Microsoft doesn't use PrimeSense's gesture and motion tracking software, but instead wrote their own. Unfortunately, I can't remember where I read that.
Note: This analysis is not a statement of agreement with their actions, just providing some insight.

I am not surprised either but I don't think Sony can be compared with Streisand. From Sony's perspective this makes perfect sense and isn't some emotional over reaction, Someone has gotten around their security and if they don't pursue this it will be seen as an open invitation to hackers on all of Sony's platforms. As a platform company and a content company they're doubly incentivised to pursue these sorts of actions in the courts.

Even the OtherOS debacle makes sense from their perspective. They make a loss on each console they sell[1] and rely on strong games sales to make up the difference. At launch they had a horrible attach rate (games sold per console sold) and much was made of its use as a cheap computing cloud platform. So removing the ability for new consoles[2] to act as a platform apart from its primary gaming role helps Sony's bottom line.

[1] They certainly did at launch not sure if that is the case any longer, historically consoles are sold at a profit once they reach middle age and production costs come down. The Wii was an exception and was sold at a profit from day one, but that is a souped up Gamecube so the factories didn't need much updating.

[2] I haven't updated my console so it can still run Linux for example.
> What's your procedure for adding new nodes to increase capacity? Would you have to take your redis cluster offline to redistribute data from all nodes over the new keyspace?

It's not easy, actually. The short answer is that we don't add capacity (because we've only needed to once, and we have tons of room to grow now). The long answer is that I have a switch I can flip that starts incrementing/adding data to a whole new cluster of Redis nodes while it still updates the old ones. We can then backfill all data to the new nodes and when they're setup, flip a switch to read/write only from/to the new nodes. It may sound a bit weird, mostly because it is. Moving sets of random keys from one node to the other while you're expecting live reads/writes is a huge pain, so I just punted on the problem.

(I elaborated a little more in a comment on my post: http://bretthoerner.com/2011/2/21/redis-at-disqus/#comment-1...)

> wonder if consistent hashing might be a bigger win in the long run.

I'm not sure that it's applicable. Consistent caching is really handy for caches when you don't want everything to miss as soon as 1/N servers drop out of the ring. You have to (imo) think of each Redis shard as a "real" DB. If your master PostgreSQL instance dies, you don't just start reading from another random instance and returning "None" for all of your queries. If a shard goes down, you either depend on an up-to-date read slave or nothing at all. I'm not sure how consistent hashing helps when adding nodes to a "real" DB, either. Say Node1 holds all of the data for CNN, you add a new node to the ring and now some % of CNN keys go to that new node. Now all of your writes are updating new/empty keys and all your reads and reading those new/empty keys. How does consistent hashing help with the migration?

(I'm really asking, because if I'm missing something I'd love to know.)
You can do it right away - and in fact, basically have to, since the other part of the puzzle is that you MUST be insured. Ultimately it's not really that clever - the state just acts as a giant group purchaser, and the fact that it's compulsory spreads the risk around so that it's not an adverse selection problem. It seems silly to shill for it, but all the details are (more or less) explained on the site: http://www.mahealthconnector.org

Note that the reason you can apply for it right away, unlike other state "benefits", is that it's not really a benefit - there's no subsidy (at least, not for self- or startup-employed folks like me who very well can afford it), so there's no real cost to the state of letting 1, 2, or 17000 more people buy in (and in fact there's an advantage, because you increase the risk pool).
Oops. Just realized who pg is. That's not what I do though. I can explain but I will have to take it offline. Thanks anyway.
This just in, big money creates "Fake People" that can buy or sell property, sue or be sued, required every quarter to show earnings.
CICS is a transaction processor. TPF and z/OS are operating systems. CICS applications will typically be accessing a relational DBMS such as DB2 or Oracle.
Tom Forsyth on double precision: http://bit.ly/fguwaZ (bit.ly link because HN mangles the real one).
Here is a blog post (not mine) that I keep returning to that contains a pile of links to different Redis uses/use cases. http://www.paperplanes.de/2010/2/16/a_collection_of_redis_us...
Trolls trolling trolls.
For anyone unaware, "meme" was coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene in 1976.
At $50-100/month, they would have to sap you for nearly a decade to make up a single surgery.

How many surgeries per decade do you think typical healthy nonsmoking twenty-somethings are having?
It doesn't really help that Apple have a huge online digital music distribution business, and are trying to build an online digital book distribution business. Once you take this into account its hard to believe that they're really doing anything other than using their platform control in order to further their business interests elsewhere.

Gruber is entirely correct that Readability wished they had platform control, but I think he's missed the point that not every organisation abuses its platform control in order to attempt to remove competition. Its still right to call Apple out when they do this, especially when for 25 years their marketing has consistently tried to present them as a freedom loving, counter-cultural organisation.
Relativity is theory. We are talking about real world.

We already know, that vacuum can generate particles, thus it is not completely empty:

http://scienceblog.com/40901/theoretical-breakthrough-genera...

You can find much more information about faster than speed traveling here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster_than_light_travel .
Actually, a big point of pride for Google in the early days was that you could search for "C++" and get relevant results.
Nice, a meet up in my neck of the woods. I will be attending.
It can be a perfectly equal relationship if you want it to be. You just have to be as prepared to quit as your employer is to fire you. That's not really very hard if you make it a goal.
And those countries produce the top super-models too.
I haven't been able to find it -- does that requirement require that the price be the same for both methods? That is, can you charge in-app users $10 and non-app users $7 so the net is the same?
Great story! Someone should make an eBay for startups. Does anyone know if one already exists?
I believe he expected that it wouldn't make it to HN, given the assumed, and sometimes enforced, focus of the site.
So you were structured as C-Corp?
Same here! And then fill the screen in interesting ways.

Ah the wonders of "goto".
Or worded differently, recruiters and spammers are the only users that use it consistently.
Is it a Microsoft win? .or. A nail in Live Messenger coffin,

Not sure how this is one up on gmail. GTalk has been on for ages (though i don't use it, or fb chat)
> If they wanted to make housing affordable, whether rented or to own they could get rid of the green belt, or encourage much denser housing. The infrastructure problems could be solved by application of sufficient money and compulsory purchase, though one would need to massively streamline the current procedures on that, and on planning. If China can build subways with stations that open in fields, so could London.

So to add to infrastructure strain, we'd have huge environmental damage.

> As to the talented young, they speak English, if they weren't going to London it's very likely they'd be going to the States.

Maybe. There are significant immigration barriers to that. The very talented, sure, but not your average educated IT guy (for example).

> Never a matter of policy. Germany was the belated nation and it's multiple centres are a consequence of late unification and being split in half and made more federal in power structure by the conquerors. (I exaggerate the German lack of agency in the choice of West German state structure)

Never said it was a matter of policy, more, as you say, historical happenstance.
Those "minor reforms" were 10,000 pages long and I doubt that anyone understands them except the lobbyists who wrote them.
i don't follow this argument. software doesn't exist in some alternate metaphysical reality. software is just as much a configuration of matter as the rest of the device.

can apple "license" the physical shape of the device and charge 30% on all sales of protective sleeves?
I think that Buildwithme is instead an excellent website, with a good usability and it's one of the few websites that tries to break the taboo of "making an app of a webapp". And I think it delivers pretty well. Of course, it's not possible with all the webapps (and not suggested).

On the other side, I think it's a very different problem, and I'd advise to not mix things up: there's style, there's identity, there are UI canons.

Bultwithme for example mixes web+mac UI canons, has a mac style and doesn't work a lot on identity.

Take Nike.com to have another example. It uses a web style, a bit toward the app format, with UI canons that are almost everywhere app-like... but it has a very strong identity.

On the other side, take Lightroom. It's obviously an app and uses desktop UI canon... but it has a definite identity that you can't mix up with anything else.

Also dropbox, as you cited, uses a quite standard web style and web UI canon, but it has a strong identity.

Don't reduce the identity to the UI canons or interaction styles: they are very different things. ;)
I'll try to be there, @zenmatt or matt@howradical.com. I'm also a panelist for Startup Blastoff at Superconf.
Wow Just to make it even worse for you, that's 1 year of Blue Cross for my wife who is studying in Canada currently. This is a private insurance provided by Blue Cross for students.
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Yeah I think you'd need to hire about 49 more people before you had a substantial group going.
Doesn't work for me Chrome 9.0.597.98 beta on Ubuntu :( Possibly because all HTTP traffic has to go through a proxy server, the company block all outbound traffic, and require a proxy server.
Django Dash is one: http://djangodash.com/

and Ludum Dare for Games: http://www.ludumdare.com/
do search for negative 42.
spell the word out. if you are lucky then google will pick up the integer -42 as a synonym and search it too.
My auto insurance company (it operates like a cooperative) provides a group plan for members to purchase health insurance. (Coverage is provided by an external company).

My auto insurance company also runs a savings bank for its members and offers loans at markedly better rates than retail banks.

Consumer cooperatives would seem the simplest way to alleviate this issue--no need for additional legislation. To confirm, I live in the US.
And you could argue that civilization has been one long exercise in striving to replace the contracts of nature with something better.
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The websocket is also on port 8080 so that could be an issue