skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree with most of this. As Liuhenry correctly says, it's heavily dependent on two things:

1. Physical fitness
2. Mental control

With regards to the former, I'd suggest looking at things like callisthenics and gymnastics, in order to get stronger, combined with running (couch to 5k is a good way to get started) to work on stamina and running.

As to the latter, it's more about accepting that you're going to get hurt now and then, and being willing to start small. Don't go jump off a 20ft roof and break roll tomorrow, jump off a secure bench, and go from there.

Other than that, I'd say practice movements over and over, until you do them without thinking, and find someone (or better still, a group - there's a fair number around the world so you should be able to find one) locally who can help you learn, and teach you how to move.
I work on:
http://pepbot.com

It's an intelligent temp mail provider
Complex numbers are a powerful tool for studying the two-dimensional plane: each point corresponds to a unique complex number . The beauty of this correspondence is that it allows you to add, subtract, and multiply points in the plane

I wish someone would have told me this five years ago, it is such a neat way of thinking!
Yes, I think that there would be a way to correct for this too.

The karma doesn't have to be calculated immediately, btw. It could be evaluated when the thread is closed for new comments.
Without context, salary is meaningless.

You should ask for title and years experience in the role. Without that a comparison is tough.
I am not a US citizen, but if that's true, it is sick.
That's certainly a way of representing it. But surely it's equivalent in practice (as long as the next step can't be a nested flight of stairs) to the iterative approach:

while there are stairs in front of me
climb one stair

I guess it's just not as clear to me as it is to you that the "up" utterance is associated with the "climb the stairs" procedure rather than the "climb one stair" procedure.
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vi and emacs. Just saying.
The MIT Mood Meter
Boiling vegetables ----------------> Steaming vegetables

Ready meals -----------------------> Eating mostly simple food (chicken, prawns, veg, brown pasta)

Red meat --------------------------> Mostly white meat

Smoked fish -----------------------> Unsmoked fish, also prawns and mussels

Out of shape ----------------------> In shape (running, weights at home and weekly personal training)

Wonky teeth -----------------------> Straight teeth

No vitamins/cod liver oil ---------> Multivitamins (hoping for longer telemeres) and cod liver oil

Work goals -----------------------> Also have personal goals (run half marathon, travel to a particular destination etc.)

Dumb phone ------------------------> Smart phone

Hotmail ---------------------------> GMail

Paper to-do list ------------------> Online to-do list
You're right, you're not going to get actionable legal advice on HN or from random articles you read on the Internet. The fact that the article cites precedents only helps you when you are spending more money than you likely have trying to defend yourself from a lawsuit that will likely come. Whether or not you prevail in the end is immaterial; the momentum (and lawyer's fees) you lose will not be worth it.

In other words: if you can't afford to talk to a lawyer now, you really can't afford to try to hold on to the source code.

If it were me, I'd take a crack at trying to find an amicable (and written) solution with the guy; if that fails, I'd walk away and consider it an educational experience.
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HN Salary Pool

http://salaryshare.me/230acd5ff2df1bf8cb03f403aabd45be

If any ones interested.
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I remember that Kiko was the first YC company I really cared about and rooted for. Their approach to this challenge was spectacularly pummeled from a timing perspective by the entry of Google (iirc), and from what I understand the guys have gone on to create some other, very excellent businesses (including Justin.tv).

I think it's interesting to note that five years on, the calendar problem remains.

(Happy for the Kiko team or those who actually know them to correct my memory; and for those with no such memory - http://techcrunch.com/2006/08/16/ajax-calendar-kikocom-goes-...)

Edit: While I was typing Larrik made his comment. So interesting to note that 2 years ago this problem still remained, and it's worth clarifying that Google's entry wasn't the only (or even main?) reason for Kiko's end.
The product is neat, but I'm having a horrendous time navigating their site, trying to find, for instance, how much they cost vs how long they last vs the price of the vending machine, which should be some sort of available thing...

Can't say whether I'm willing to buy one and put it up in my shop if I can't run some numbers..
The face palms started with the AOL/Time Warner fiasco in 2000.

I still remember sitting in my basement watching the NASDAQ hit 5000 and thinking this wasn't going to end well. The AOL/Time Warner merger a month later didn't help that feeling. Too bad I was a poor 19 year old college student who didn't understand how the financial world works at the time.
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What is a good comment though? I think our minds can be tricked that something is good just by a high score. I'm liking this new way as it makes me actually think about the comments more and I determine if it is good or not. This probably ends up taking more "time", but maybe it is worth more.
Very nice. But what happens when the power fails? RAM can't preserve state without power...
meta: now that only the poster can see his/her post's score, others can't tell if a post with a question interests many in the community or not. Previously, edw519 (or others) could gauge using the question's score the community's interest.

In a pragmatic sense, it's not far fetched to assume that a question that you can see interests many people (but only few can answer) will have more chance of being answered than a question that appears to interest only Joe User.

Now, if I want to show interest in the question, edw519 can't see my upvote(1) and thus it's useless in the "showing public support" sense. The only thing I can now do to show public interest is a "me too!" or a "yes, do tell!" post, which I guess all of us would like to avoid.

(1) maybe with enough karma you CAN see everybody's score, idk, but the point still stands
This. And also location. Without location this is useless. I can't possibly compare my Slovenian salary to you yankees :)
Care to elaborate on the eating/lifestyle issue?
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Curious about

weight lifting --------------> bodyweight exercises

Is there a specific reason or is it just tied to your switch to a home gym?
I think the point is that users will share links with other people with comparable title and experience.
Very cool. Might be interesting to collect age, years of experience and perhaps company while you're at it so you can see a nice distribution. This might destroy some anonymity amongst a close group of friends, but amongst a diverse anonymous crowd such as HN it would be interesting.
And they sill cost an arm and a leg there. And even though they will probably use identical manufacturing technologies as they use other places, I don't know if the quality will be the same. Had many Brazilian products, assembled and completely manufactured there and they were very poor quality.
This is classic price anchoring at work.

For years people would be very happy to produce work and get (somewhat) paid for it because it is about writing something they are passionate for. Then, this gets disrupted because the owner gets a big payout and doesn't share. Disgusted with how things have turned out, since they now perceive their work to be worth more, they leave. Suddenly the talent acquisition has turned into nothing.

(The case of HuffPost is somewhat different, presumably the traffic would stay around longer. )

But this business model is subject to disruption. I read that pirates operate on a fairness principle, because many of them suffered as sailors in government ships. May be someone here can start a HuffPost alternative that issues equity instead?
Close new user registration. It might hurt YC a bit, but it's worth experimenting with.
Lately I've been writing a client for TeleHash, a protocol which provides addressing, subscription and NAT traversal for p2p apps. The protocol itself is still being fleshed out and the existing clients are only prototypes so I'm aiming to create a solid reference client and test suite.

https://github.com/jamii/erl-telehash

http://scattered-thoughts.net/all?tag=telehash&abridge=t...

http://telehash.org

TeleHash was originally created for use in the Locker project, which I also contribute to. Locker gathers data from all manner of services and websites (gmail, IMAP, XMPP, facebook, wordpress, twitter etc) and stores it on your own machine so you can access all your data from a uniform interface without having to trust an external site. In the future Locker will expand this with apps providing search, visualization and data mining.

https://github.com/quartzjer/Locker

http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/02/singly-locker-project-teleh...
> let java and the jvm just die, it's bad, it's all bad. the jvm was a bad idea

It may be a good idea for you to have reconsider that opinion on the JVM. Java as a language is arguable but JVM is definitely an engineering marvel.

You can look at languages like Clojure, Scala and JRuby on the JVM. It gets you the goodness of JVM plus a great language to use for your app.
* automatic => manual trans
* Windows => Linux (1999)
* Sysadmin => Developer (background is CS)
* ignoring exercise since high school => treadmill, elliptical
* iPhone => Android
* bare metal => virtualization
* most others => Python
right align the numbers in the results, and don't make the list numbers mess with alignment. see the HN list for an example of how the mis-alignment makes it unecessarily difficult to scan/compare

http://salaryshare.me/230acd5ff2df1bf8cb03f403aabd45be
Isn't that sort of the opposite of what pg intended, though?
I built http://urlminder.appspot.com as a way of tracking the dozens on domain names I have between work and other side projects. My email is in my profile.
An eclectic selection:

* "Real" job => Starting a company

* 24/7 working life => Switching off and becoming a published fiction writer

* Self-doubt and low self esteem => Finding formal help

* Teflon pans => Cast iron pans (seriously, look up how bad teflon is for you - and cast iron pans are way more fun to cook with)

* Building things => Building companies
Personally I think the cost of living stuff is largely a red herring. First of all, it's normally not even. Maybe rent is cheaper but food is higher, or certain necessary services are more expensive. Second of all; an iPhone costs the same in Mountain View as it does in podunk Arkansas. You can say "but... luxury!" all you want, we have more and more of these nationally priced items around us all the time.
The slides (http://talks.php.net/show/dojo/1) seem good as a quick overview of the talk. The take home messages generally being: make sure you know where your application is spending its time using strace, and to track superfluous overhead (such as configurable fallbacks that you can hardcode in a deployed application). Also: HipHop is not a magic bullet. Without heavily computational application code it gives only marginal improvements over PHP with APC, at least in these tests.
thanks for posting lowendbox.com, it's been added to my list of sites I will use one day.
A possible counterpoint to this is that in some big cities you do have forms of anonymous camaraderie. I live in the largest city in south america (são paulo), and once I moved here my biggest surprise was how intimate this place could be in comparison with the much smaller places I had lived in before. While in the subway other people are complete strangers and won't receive a cursory greeting, if you do ask someone for help or information it's highly likely that you will get a very polite answer in return, no matter how weird, agressive, poor, or shabby looking you are (I've seen from bums to well-dressed business-people being treated the same way when asking for information in the subway). Also any reasonably self-contained place in this city creates familiarity--I know my butcher by name, the people from the fruit and vegetable market (there are a few in every neighborhood) know me and my wife, I talk to the owners of the nightclubs and restaurants I go to, it is perfectly acceptable to talk to strangers when lining up for the movies (but not necessarily inside the movies, although I've seen people making friendships in this way), etc. The secret seems to be that to create intimacy and trust you need to build some form of a smaller spaces where people can be identified and recognized inside the "big city". Continuing with the city analogy, as long as there are spaces where you will face consequences for misbehaving, social trust is built.

This suggests that a way to improve HN is to add more explicit punishments for bad behavior, preferably moderated.
This happened to me the other night. I checked into a bar and was asked by someone I was with why I did it. Seconds later, I received a text from a friend saying she was in the area and wanted to meet up. I said to the person who asked, "That's why."

Now, "just get over it and stop worrying about what other people think" definitely solves my personal problem of how not to be embarrassed, but it doesn't solve Foursquare's problem of convincing users to "just get over it" and "you shouldn't care what other people think". You are definitely right about that challenge. Just thought I'd share an anecdote :)
I use companiesmadesimple.com
They handle registered office service as well.
I'm in a similar situation (just incorporated).
The next step should be to open a bank account or make it dormant. I haven't figured out this step though, mind to keep in touch?
> A bridge hand dissector that helps intermediate players become expert players.

Do you know Fred Gitelman, the creator of Bridge Base? If not and you'd like an introduction, please ping me.
Expiring the session might be a neccesary evil. But please, at least try to remember the form contents when the user re-logs in.
The check-in is way too egalitarian in order to transfer any perceived social wealth through using the service.

What value can it have when I spend $300 on tickets to an event and some schmuck in the nosebleed seats who spent $30 can check-in with the same social weight? He's not in my class and I don't want him to be associated with me, never mind competing with me in a game.

It's all fun and games until the normals start playing.
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Much the same way Microsoft has Exchange as its server backend and Outlook as the client UI, Lotus has Domino as its backend and Notes as its frontend. Domino is a pretty good product. It's fast, secure, distributes well, was one of the first products to employ a document-based database, and it's backwards-compatible across something like fifteen years of its database format. Every sysadmin I know loves it.

Notes, in contrast, is now a wretched mess, having failed to correct for fifteen years' worth of poor UX decisions.

Taken as two independent entities, the calendaring in Domino is excellent. Notes makes it a pain to deal with, but Domino does a good job of solving the hard bits. So there's a good argument to be made that Lotus has made a successful go at this, but I wouldn't give Notes the credit.
Do you succeed doing that with sensible savings, health care, etc.?
The to-do app looks cool but $3.99? :)
When salary information is private, the employee has advantage while negotiating a new job, whereas, if the salary information is public, he has advantage while he is within the company.
Here is their store: http://greenaid.co/pages/Store.html. But the vending machine doesn't seem to be featured, not sure if that's "yet" or if the vending machine itself is not a product. I guess you can contact them and ask, especially if you're interested in hosting a machine.
Yes. That's why I'm bringing it up.
My side-project is a job search engine that works by crawling company websites to build up the job database. In addition to letting people do the standard search based on keywords, I've also added the ability to filter job search results with other meaningful metrics like: the size of the company, companies that have won employer awards (eg. Best Places to Work), restricting the job search to only .edu, .net, .com sites, etc.

The site is at http://www.neekanee.com

My email is in my profile.
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Looking for programmers
I am an entrepreneur and Co-Founder of a German based start-up and we are looking for some programmers. Interested ? please come back to me mueller.beteiligungs.gmbh@googlemail.com
I work for a company with well over 100,000 employees, but if I gave my salary, title, and years experience (and as someone else noted, especially if I added my location), I wouldn't be anonymous. To my employer, at least. It would be trivial for them to narrow down the information to being provided by a very small number of people - if not the exact person.

I don't see this flying, where I work though. Even among the people I'm closest to, I don't think they'd take to this sort of information sharing amongst each other. Even pseudo-anonymously. I'm not sure if that's because they'd feel it's tacky or if it's because it has been drilled into everyone from corporate culture that you _never_ talk about it.

As an aside, I would actually much rather know not what the guys I've been working alongside for the past decade are making compared to me, but what new hires in the same positions as us are being hired at. Especially when you throw in all the hiring freezes and pay freezes over the last ten years.
The guys at c2 have already figured this one out: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CommunityLifeCycle

Also, if you're into how communities work and why how they succeed/fail/implode, you should definitely look at Meatball wiki: http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/
For me, the key question for any new language is: "Does your language help me create better abstractions?" And what I specifically mean by "abstractions" is that I can take a recurring pattern in the code and
a) capture the repetition and
b) reuse the abstraction representing that repetition and
c) doing b is smaller/simpler than the original code

After a decade+ in Java, my conclusion is that Java cannot capture repetition in many common real use cases. The addition of lambdas in jdk 8 will expand the scope of what can be captured but will still not cover control flow use cases.

Even when you can actually capture the abstraction (many common "design patterns" are examples of this), you will find that doing so increases the overall size of the code (you must create new interfaces, factories, etc etc). The downside is that making more general, higher abstraction systems are by definition more complicated in Java.

I want to build large maintainable systems and the ability to create powerful abstractions that simplify my code is essential. I have moved to Clojure which so far has delivered on these needs. I don't know as much Scala but my impression is that it also satisfies these goals. At the very least, I'd say that both Clojure and Scala consider this kind of thing to be in scope as a goal.

It's easy to make a language that is more concise than Java. I think it's harder to satisfy the goals I specified above (which are only indirectly related to conciseness).

I haven't studied Ceylon enough to tell whether it makes progress towards building better abstractions.
The image has something scary in it.
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> US Dollars, please

But I get paid in pounds sterling. Can't this just be a free-form text field?
And don't forget the "I've changed my mind" unsubscribe link at the bottom, too.
I think the use case is to get an informal survey among your peers. I wouldn't expect a C-level professional or someone more senior to be using it. But that doesn't mean you can't create a pool and send only to the half-a-dozen guys that you work with, or your cubicle-neighbors.
I'm building something of a portfolio project in my spare time. Something to show to potential employers and myself that I have the ability to make a robust web application.

It is called http://www.selfcompete.com and, even though I'm doing it as a learning experience, I think it has the potential that it could gain some users because it's a lot of fun to use. It is a web app that provides a way to measure (and kind of brag about) your personal bests. I wrote up a blog post explaining a little more of the idea behind it : http://dashdingo.org/post/4273080092/what-is-self-compete

You can contact me through the email address in my profile or twitter, where I have the same username.
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Most of these units have an internal battery and CF card or other flash storage - when the power goes out, the battery lets them write the contents of their RAM to the permanent storage.

There are also other options than the one linked:

http://www.ddrdrive.com/ - pcie card, favored by many people running ZFS

http://us.test.giga-byte.com/Products/Storage/Products_Overv... - Gigabyte's i-RAM, very similar to what's linked.
Actual presentation submission, rather than placeholder blog entry, is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2442228
That is not the point of the site. From the inspiration linked above, it is clear that it is about comparing salaries in a single firm or in a similar fairly homogeneous setting.
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> You're judging a book by its cover.

I'm judging a website by its front page, godammit. What else could I do? I clicked a bit around, but my PC slowed to a crawl, so much for a first good impression.

> Why not try them out before you criticise?

I could try it out if I could make any sense of it. I don't have time to open accounts on random websites just in case it may be interesting. I'm tech-savvy enough, but if I can't understand what a website is about at first glance, either 1° it's definitely targeting an audience I'm no part of; or 2° there's a serious presentation problem.

So I'm not criticizing, I'm leaning towards the gentler side : I'm probably not their target. Or else, in case they're actually targeting 40yo geeks and entrepreneurs, they may be doing it wrong.