skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I may, here are my productivity tips:

- find/build a good todo system using GTD (Getting Things Done) methods (capture, organize, review)

- use it to capture all your thoughts and things you have to do. Get it out of your head.

- make weekly and monthly reviews of your work. The things you have accomplished.

- keep a daily log/journal not necessarily of things you have done but make side notes of things that affected you. New articles, a movie that changed your perspective on things, a new idea etc. If it comes back over and over, consider writing more about the subject

- clarify your long term goals vs the short ones. That's the difference between being busy doing client work for money to pay bills and being busy working on projects that will change your life (i.e scratching your own itch)

- track your progress: I track it using three columns. What I have planned for today, what I actually did and what I failed to do. My TODO system automatically assigns a score to that day and reschedules tasks.
In my calendar, I do not have "completed" days, I have scores tracking my performance.

- define what is important to you and develop the habits you want to have: Exercise every day? (20 points), Work for clients (20 points), work on your weekly/monthly personal goal (e.g learn zsh) (50 points). Obviously, the number of points is subjective and based on what you believe is important

I'm sure there is more but that's the basic idea. I see my productivity as a system consistenly looking to be improved and become more efficient
And when your database is out in the wild, it'll let crackers know exactly which passwords to go after first, and which ones not to bother with!
>...Anyway, my parents raised my sister and I on a single teacher's salary that was a lot less than $100K

Sure, when? 15+ years ago?

Also, why would you assume that my SO also makes 100K? She doesnt, as a hair stylist - she makes very little comparatively.

What egregious expenses did I have in my post if anything? The ONLY luxury items I had in my list were a beer with friends and a bottle of wine.

The problem I think we are seeing here is that everyone who thinks that 100K is a lot of money is:

Not/has not been Married

Has no kids

Is under 35

Also, @JasonKester: "wearing monogrammed blazers to school"

You fail to understand that simply having a kid is going to cost you ~1500 in childcare expenses, assuming you dont have a stay at home SO to watch after the child.

Its not a status statement -- try looking up what freaking baby sitters/nannies cost for an infant, whom you cannot slap a monogrammed badge on their blazer and dump them off on the corner.

This is a common problem with YC/HN -- there are a lot of <30-somethings thinking they have it all figured out.

/lawn
The Japanese is(was?) stratified into two distinct layers. The top layer is the large corporations that we all know about: Hitachi, Mitsubishi, etc. These are the companies that hired for life. They dont hire old people, except for those "descending from heaven". They hire young people that stay for life. The old people are the lifers that aren't fired, but clog the promotion ladder. Most people work for the second tier of subcontractors where pay is less and employment is less assured. Often family owned companies.

Disclaimer: I havent paid much attention to Japan for a decade, since my Brazilian-Japanese ex became ex. However, her family members spent a lot of years working for the second tier companies as "guest workers".
Agreed. This is extra creepy.

Flagged.
Curious coindidence – I was thinking about this the other day, wading through Gibson's _Neuromancer_. The novel, just like earlier Stephenson fiction, paints a not-too-distant future entirely dominated by "Nipponese" brands and cultural artefacts. _Neuromancer_ was published in 1984. A lot has changed ever since.
That's exactly my point. There is no reset option in the case of a corrupted database or file inside the app bundle.
Ugh. Time for me to go to all 32 character passwords.
Chrome style incremental updates would help here. Firefox makes people download the entire browser package each time there's an update, while Chrome downloads a patch - a saving of >90% size-wise.
This very article was the inspiration for my recurring todo app - http://www.dailytodo.org/
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Not a direct source of his quote, but it's the topic in question. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushels_Case
In addition to the business cost of giving away discounts, are you accounting for the business cost of increased support incidents for forgotten passwords?

(Good idea though)
I think that's the most important feature, and would give your site an advantage to using a wiki. Providing/exposing 'semantic structure' in documents and separating style from structure is cool, but I don't think that's a problem that people are clamoring to have solved, anymore than it's already solved by various markup technologies.

A wiki that can exports its content as professional grade PDF files suitable for publishing would be awesome, but that's a major feature, and my humble advice would be to see if that's doable WELL before you do anything else.

I would actually be interested to know if anything already does that...
Can anyone explain why there would be a limit to contacts? My best guess was to prevent spam: 10,000 contacts is probably in the top 1% of users, but might be much more heavily seen in bots.

Side note: Gmail offers a "Most Contacted" feature to show you who you email the most. It might be interesting if they had a "Least Contacted" feature as well, to be able to easily remove contacts you never use.
> clothed to naked with just "1!aAA"

72 ^ 5 = 1,934,917,632

Good luck brute-forcing that. 5 characters is plenty secure.
I agree that it must be social, but it shouldn't encourage you to share - it must simply allow you to, should you decide to.

If I see a popup demanding that I enter friends' email addresses, I leave.
As John Adams said, “It is not only his right but also his duty... to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment, and conscience, though in direct opposition to the direction of the court.”

More recently, the following decisions have upheld jury nullification:

The jury has an “unreviewable and irreversible power ... to acquit in disregard of the instructions on the law given by the trial judge. The pages of history shine upon instances of the jury's exercise of its prerogative to disregard uncontradicted evidence and instructions of the judge. Most often commended are the 18th century acquittal of Peter Zenger of seditious libel, on the plea of Andrew Hamilton, and the 19th century acquittals in prosecutions under the fugitive slave law." - U.S. vs Dougherty, 473 F 2d 1113, 1139 (1972)

"If the jury feels that the law under which the defendant is accused, is unjust, or that exigent circumstances justified the actions of the accused, or for any reason which appeals to their logic of passion, the jury has the power to acquit, and the courts must abide by that decision." - U.S. vs Moylan, 417 F 2d 1002, 1006 (1969)

And finally, from two of America’s Founding Fathers:

"... you [juries] have a right to take it upon yourselves to determine the law as well as the fact in controversy." - John Jay, First Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court

"The jury has the Right to judge both the law and the facts." - Samuel Chase, Supreme Court Justice and signer of the Declaration of Independence

See also:

http://fija.org/
http://www.greenmac.com/eagle/ISSUES/ISSUE23-9/07JuryNullifi...
AR will remain a toy until we have workable heads-up displays, at which point it will become huge. We seem to be right on schedule for Halting State.
"Finally, put down the math books. Put down the compiler books. Data structures and algorithms, sure, but those others. Bah!"

This is seriously bad advice. The converse is not necessarily good advice but when the OP explicitly wants to be good at CS, "put down the compiler books and read the GOF Design Patterns book" is terrible advice. The GOF DP book is barely one step above Cargo Cult sw,something the OP is trying to flee. There is a wide range of advice on this thread but this must be the worst(imo, ymmv etc).
You can still maximize the time and expense of an attack with salts and rainbow tables. (and bcrypt)
Vinton Cerf on the Internet’s Future
I and someone in my family invested a lot of time trying to be a customer of one of Fred's portfolio sites, Etsy. One of their problems is definitely effective marketing and sane branding. The guy in charge of their marketing, Matt Stinchomb, had no experience in the field other than promoting an indie band, so that's how he promoted Etsy. Their activities since then leave a lot to be desired. I hear so many people who have heard of Regretsy, a site created to mock Etsy, and not Etsy itself. It doesn't make me feel proud to have a shop.

It seems like Fred's plans here are 'one size fits all' without recognizing that not all web ventures are the same. They've treated Etsy like it's some viral Facebook 'tag your chickens in VR' app, more than something that needs to be built into a household name.
Actually, I was unable to disable it for my Magic Mouse, though. According to the release notes:

"Multitouch trackpads that only support two-finger gestures will not have an option to reverse the scrolling direction in the Trackpad System Preferences pane."

I assume the Magic Mouse only supports two-finger gestures, so maybe that explains it. Either way, I had a really hard time getting used to it.

I ended up having to revert to Snow Leopard thanks to issues with Dropbox, Evernote and NewsRack anyway, but I'd be surprised if that scrolling behavior and a lot of the new UI weirdness actually makes it to the final Lion GM. We'll see.
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This is what I see: http://i.imgur.com/UV9ca.jpg

Can someone please explain what this is supposed to be...?
"Anyway, my parents raised my sister and I on a single teacher's salary that was a lot less than $100K. Yes, kids do cost more than being a bachelor. However, a lot of the expenses I see batted around as justification for why you need $100K just to live today are utterly ridiculous. 90% of American households get by with much less than that."

Yes, they do. In other parts of the country.

What your parents did 20+ years ago has very little bearing on the cost of raising a family in San Francisco, today. It takes more than one spouse with a sub-$100k job. Again, $100k just isn't that much money in a place where rent on a decent one-bedroom starts at $2,000 a month.
Its about putting effort into something of worth. The act of putting effort into something and maintaining discipline, even if you stretch the definition a bit, is what counts.

Even Seinfeld doesn't write a good joke everyday the point is to at least take a shot at writing a good joke everyday. You know how we procrastinate from exercising by saying - I don't feel like doing a full hour workout. Doesn't matter you can go and do it for 30 minutes or even only 5. Not feeling like doing what you "should" be doing is normal. Nobody is on top of their game 24/7. But you should prevent yourself from quitting by putting in some effort while waiting for good wind to return.

The size of daily goals depend mostly on individual long term strategy and ambition.
He is not being critical of Islam; he's being biased against all followers of Islam. He is saying that a Muslim cannot be an impartial jury member at a trial for a Jew.

For the record: I think all religions suck (some more than others).
I like this but took it one little step further by stacking the months, because that worked even better for my brain. Now time simply goes week by week downwards, rather than down and then up and to the right to start a new month.

Pic: http://blog.calendars.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/aaron_t...

If someone would please print these, I'd love to buy one.
Fear not, man. When I read this post I was like "yea, that's me" at least ten times. Except when I went back to school I got an MBA instead of CS degree. Anyway, tons of good advice here that I won't bother regurgitating. I just want to chime in and say that I've been where you are. I'm still holding down my corporate job but I am the product VP at a startup and currently working on another project on the side. I still have MUCH to learn in the way of hacking/coding but that's never gonna stop. Just follow the good advice you've gotten here and keep your head up.
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A billion isn't exactly inconceivably large in this context.
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Yes, but look at the South where it was hard to get a white jury to convict a white defendant for a crime against a black. That's nullification too.
And you can't have true freedom of speech while simultaneously preventing people from being jerks and saying mean things. Surely not telling people they have freedom of speech is an absurd solution.

The consequences of legally obligating a jury to rule as the judge feels is proper are MUCH worse than any of the consequences you have described.
So his productivity secret is calendars and Xs? Weak sauce.
1/ How are wikis doing today?

2/ What is the future of wikis?

3/ How are you involved?
I imagine that the effort counts more than whether the task was completed in the retrospective absolute sense.

You're training yourself to put consistent effort into things that are important to you but probably unpleasant compared to playing Minecraft.
For those who prefer Python, PyGame (http://www.pygame.org/) is a very good framework for making games.

Having said that, this looks very interesting and I'll definitely keep an eye out for it in future.
lol not really, but I do find myself using a Java hashmaps and not knowing how hashing works, using a regex that was copied and pasted from google without understanding what it does, programming in java and not knowing how the GC algorithms work, or working with threads and not knowing the basics of OS schedulers, programming and not being proficient with bitwsie opperations... and the list goes on, at least that is my interpretation of a cargo cult "java" programmer.
"Convention over configuration" is one of the central tenets of the Ruby and Rails communities.

The goal is to have sensible defaults that cover the majority of use cases but allow deviation when necessary. Since the vast majority of Rubyists almost never use ri and RDoc locally, DHH is arguing that the default should be to not install the documentation.
One argument for the new behavior is that more people have internalized scrolling behavior on a modern touchscreen browser than have internalized the old MacBook way of scrolling. It makes even more sense looking forward. Steve Jobs has predicted that classic keyboard-equipped computers are going the way of "trucks" - if that's the case, it makes some sense to standardize toward touchscreen conventions.
This site illustrates one of my pet peeves with "password strength" meters: punctuation doesn't increase your score. Mixed case does, numbers do, but punctuation doesn't.

Correction: some punctuation does, but most don't.
Attend tradeshows. This would be a good place to start http://www.conexpoconagg.com/
Versions is nice. After you first save the file every subsequent manual save creates a version. There are consequently not only the automatic hourly versions.

The UI is a bit clunky, though. OS X switches to a fullscreen Time Machine view which felt way too jarring to me.

The locking behavior is also very well thought out. Additionally to automatically locking documents after two weeks, Lion also (better) exposes this functionality in the UI. All this helps to make it much less likely that you will ever accidentally overwrite an old document you used as a template. (When you start editing a locked document a dialog pops up telling you that the document is locked and the default option is not unlock but duplicate which is great.)
While this was interesting, none of the text aligned right for me (chromium on ubuntu). Any link in the text would be on top of other text.
Isn't the point of a list comprehension - comprehension?

(It's a paraphrase of something Feynman once said to Murray Gell-Mann.)
Do you think automated functional testing (in the style of Fit) is catching on? What is getting in the way?
I like the simplicity of your app.
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An option to select your gender should def. be included :)
OP, if you make it down here: the overwhelming majority of my programming ability comes from doing variations of what the above post says.

I didn't get much education from university, except for the occasional nagging feeling of "I think I covered this in a class once". That usually turns into a Google spree, where I re-teach myself whatever concept I almost-remembered.
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This is the type of support response which is accepted by companies as "good enough," because it recognizes that there is a problem and offers a "solution."

Really, this is one of those non-apology apologies that is infuriating to people with completely reasonable expectations. What is this nonsense of asking the user to formally request a feature? They just did request a feature! If it needs to go into a system, the support person should do that for them.

A better approach: actually apologize, give your explanation (or excuse), give a timeline for a solution if possible.

Abbreviated example for this situation: "Very sorry, we understand why this has caused confusion and problems… We set arbitrary limits to prevent outright abuse, and made a mistake by not having a function to override in special cases such as yours… I've forwarded your issue to our engineering dept., and I will personally inform you when we've solved your problem." Is that really so hard?
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After reading the article, I am not convinced, we should copy the techniques employed by porn sites when building all "ordinary" sites. On a porn site, the content variability is low - it is easy to pick one video, promote it, and it would probably satisfy all viewers to some degree. On a normal site, each user wants something else and pushing one video may annoy 90% of viewers, because it is not what they are looking for. On a less emotional and more informative site, you have to be less pushy.
Japan remains one of the nicest places in the world to live. It is still a huge success story.

There are two interesting ideas on why Japan gets so dumped on as a failure, or "moribund".

1) While the Japanese people are doing fine, western banks and investors and businesses have consistently gotten soaked when trying to play Japan over the last 20 years. The people who write about Japan for the Wall Street Journal have a very different lens from an ordinary person.

2) The Japanese have strongly rejected the western liberal agenda, and it's working out rather well for them. Can't have people clued in on that, so write about "moribund" Japan. The Japanese remain nationalistic and race conscious. They believe in Japan as a unified cultural nation and reject immigration. This has a great deal to do with the high quality of life and personal safety in Japan. It also ties into how they maintain a public social welfare system that works comparatively well. They also believe in protectionist policies (rightly or wrongly), which do not appear to be doing a great deal of harm.
A search feature for expired domains would be useful.
Ask HN: Has Google's "Farmer Update" affected your sites
So far, I've seen a pretty significant drop in traffic on one of my sites (around 25%), while my other site that is essentially a clone is doing fine (first is jobs focused and the second is internships focused). These sites aren't content farms, and they have really strong, clean link profiles (I've always played by the rules).

I'm trying to figure out what signals Google has used for this update, and so far I'm a bit stumped. I'd love to hear what the rest of you are noticing.
I love this idea and am going to start doing it. Thanks for the tip.
For what time period? Dictatorships often work well, if the requirements are reduced to a time span of just a few years and personal freedom is not a part of the spec.
MBA Late 2010 (i.e. SSD only) and I have TRIM support listed in Sys Profiler.
+1. I'm a pro user and I love it.
The Bermunda Triangle of Productivity
Kakonomics. Or, the strange preference for Low quality outcomes
Interesting. There are only two links in the whole article!
It bothers the computer scientist in me that they set an artificial number as a contact limit. 2^16? Okay, they made a design decision that is problematic. But 10000? Obviously someone set an arbitrary limit based on their expert opinion about the number of contacts a person might need.

I am shocked that the "expert" was wrong.
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This is a politically charged issue about union-busting that's not particularly relevant for HN.

And since the article written by a political operative [1, 2], it's no surprise that he either avoids the main issue or fails to support his arguments with much evidence.

[1] http://tcf.org/about/fellows/richard-d.-kahlenberg-senior-fe...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_Foundation
How did Launch Conference compare to TechCrunch50 (TechCrunch Disrupt)?
There's a substantial amount of semiconductor plant still in the states. There's a huge Micron plant not far from me right now.

The quality and reliability surveys over the last eight years or so are not favorable to Toyota. US made cars are as good as any other, and the German brands have actually slipped a lot.
This looks great! Is anybody using it in production though? I can't find any case studies on their site.
The default should be what makes sense in a development environment, since rubygems is a development tool. The fact that you can use it to perform deployments as well is interesting, but doesn't concern this question.

Generating both HTML and console documentation is suspect, but generating no documentation at all is much worse.
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there are several other chances for a citizen check between jury nullification and guns.

I don't think so. It's true in the sense of escalation of severity. But in the "between" sense of chronology, we're past peaceful protest and civil disobedience. You're effectively writing off those who are today being convicted of unjust laws, hoping that things will be better tomorrow, but not considering the plight of those who are wronged today.

From the perspective of someone whose morals are based on natural rights (which, I think, includes the founding fathers), the status quo is such that morally-innocent people are being imprisoned and having their rights taken away in other ways, right now.

Since the force the State is using to do this is founded on its citizens, I am in essence committing the crime of taking away the rights of these innocents. It is therefore morally incumbent upon me to write this wrong. Asking the government nicely to stop being evil hasn't worked, and these innocents are still suffering. It's therefore each citizen's responsibility (under this moral code) to free these innocents.
we have that choice. not everyone does. thats my point, i suppose.
Streaks has been pretty effective for me; I used it to get myself to meditate every day. There's a little detail that makes all the difference: The app shows a badge on its icon that tells you the length of your streak. Skipped a day? No badge for you.

I put it on the home screen, so I get to see that badge many times a day, much more often than I would see a physical calendar.