skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the only thing that requires [incentivizes] them to perform any upkeep are village building codes.

Well, and the fact that if they don't scrape and repaint the peeling paint in the living room, they have to live in a living room with peeling paint.

I just came back from fixing my bike at a pizzería that's been squatted for about ten years now by a group of local anarchists and other socialists, who have converted it into a community center. Twice a week they have bike-fixing workshops, where they teach you to fix your bike and supply you with the tools and the parts you need. (And solicit donations.) The place is a lot better maintained than many buildings I've been in around here.

If your beliefs about incentives and rational economic matters fail to describe how people actually behave, you should revise your beliefs.

(Yes, squatting is risky, because you could lose everything you've worked for. It would be particularly amusing if you were really arguing that risking working for years and then losing everything is irrational on a web site devoted to high-tech startups.)
Whichever way you look at it, building a business in the music space is difficult. We're all probably competing with piracy more so than each other. There is no good road. You make it sound like we've had it easy, which is not the case. Every employee has at some time gone without pay for an extended period of time. Mine was 10 months. That's the sort of dedication it takes to bring a product from a thousand users to millions when you're underfunded. And our relationships didn't form suddenly when we had millions of users. They were the result of years of work in the trenches when our userbase was small- going to concerts, promoting artists, branding our site...basically everything we could do to get their songs heard.
Balderdash. There's no responsibility to go slower so people can catch up.

If there's honestly a cultural divide between Silicon Valley and Unemployed America, then there ought to be some serious money to be made on things that help Unemployed America that people in Silicon Valley aren't going to find (which is good news for me, if I can just figure out what those things are). Expect this to be one of the things that ends this recession/depression - but blaming macroeconomic screwups on the only people around not screwing up is not the answer.
Generally you have to be paying taxes during the period of adverse possession.
This is so spot on -- I am in the same position (and I wouldn't trade it for the world).
34 points as of right now and it's nothing but an image?
I live in Sydney, but i've heard there are some hills and beaches in the bay area. Trail-running in a national park (this weekend), Skiing (last weekend), Snorkeling off Sydney to see Grey Nurse Sharks (next), Go to a gig and say 'hello' to people (last night).

EDIT: If there are any HN'ers in Sydney that want to partake in these activities, email me.
37Signals doesn't use their blog for marketing - really? PR and pseudo-education IS marketing. It is like forex.com "teaching" you some basics of trading.

37signals is actually very simple thing and very common formula - 3 or 4 really smart people(high IQ, well educated in different fields) joining forces.
An incomplete list of HN collaborative Google Docs/Spreadsheets
(By request)

* The Web Design doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14Ym6LTR9hLBGI0cM0mMU_BDEKG3ysmRsakwzA5Z_Ce4/edit?hl=en_US&authkey=CLWU-ssM

* HN Contractors spreadsheet: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlD_6iEb8Ed9dGs3clVJYi0yYVBka181Z0ZKRW9kQ0E&hl=en_US#gid=0

* HN Co-founder wishlist spreadsheet: https://spreadsheets1.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?hl=en_US&key=t1_0CjyeF5QqMwgh6AFGtqA&hl=en_US#gid=9

* Startup Ideas spreadsheet (now read-only, was writable by all HN pretty sure): https://spreadsheets1.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?hl=en_GB&key=tOGIddn3rPdqKbHWsqaWbiw&hl=en_GB#gid=2

* HN internships and interns: https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ASrV38bNy1TlZHhqNjlmel8xMjdmN2Q4em5jZw&hl=en

* The SAAS Model Spreadsheet (not crowdsourced/writable, but was very popular): https://spreadsheets0.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?authkey=CN_dm8wH&hl=en&key=tHPkF8Ow9ENfpgz7KpaxKeg&hl=en&authkey=CN_dm8wH#gid=0

* The complete list of TED talks by date (not crowdsourced/writable, but still very useful): https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pjGlYH-8AK8ffDa6o2bYlXg&gid=0

Context: In the thread about the crowdsourced Google+ Doc/book, I brought up the HN tradition of similarly impressive collaboration. Somebody asked for a list (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2772095).

It'd be really cool if you add any I missed in the thread below.

[update: Yes, it does occur to me to put them all... in a spreadsheet. :D
And yet I really wanted this to be skimmable without clicking out, etc.
I'm not opposed to putting these (and any contributed below) in a spreadsheet later.]
Dancing tango and jumping out of planes. Both are very rewarding and clear your mind like nothing else. With skydiving you get to do exciting and challenging stuff with your fellow jumpers, since it requires no less than absolute concentration it's great for getting away from the stress of the daily grind. It also makes me go outside and soak up the sun, which is great since I'm not as attracted to most other outdoor activities.

Dancing provides the physical activity you terribly need as a knowledge worker, while doing something fun. I've also come to experience that it also effortlessly generates a social life for you which can expand to as much time as you'd prefer to allocate to it.
what do you guys do on your time off?

Time off? What's that?

How do you achieve that work-life balance?

I'm working on a startup, I don't have time for work-life balance.

What do I do on the weekend? Well, I get off of my dayjob around 5:00pm on Friday, I drive home, swinging by the grocery store to stock up on coffee, sugar, cream, sodas, etc., then settle into my favorite chair with my laptop and start coding... continuing until around 6:00am or so, on Sat. morning. Sleep until 1 or so, get up, work another couple of hours, then take a brief break by going to Barnes & Noble for a latte or something and to browse books for a while, maybe sit in the cafe and read for a while. Then I come back home, and start working again. That goes on until 3-4 or so on Sun. morning. Sunday I usually get up around noon, work another hour or two, then do laundry, and the last few hours of the day before going back to bed, I either work, or -when I'm feeling burned out and needing of a break- watch a movie or something.
Definitely my experience. I still have vivid nightmares about the general exam more than 10 years later. It was an 3 day x 8 hours per day written test with no breaks. If you wanted to eat, you had to bring food with you into the test room. Then there was the dreaded oral inquisition. Although I didn't appreciate it at the time, having survived the abject misery of the first 2 years of a physics Ph.D., everything else has seemed manageable in comparison. A few years ago, they changed the format of the written exam to a single 8 hour day. My thesis defense was a total cakewalk. Scheduling it late on a Friday afternoon was probably the single smartest thing I ever did in grad school.
What part do you hope was facetious?
Done: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2772398
This is good info, and matches my experience, for what that's worth.
How the Air Conditioner Made Modern America
Work-life balance is when your work is reasonably a hobby. In coding, a lot of the things we hate at work tend to be the bureaucracy associated with being part of a traditional corporate "team".

I always joke that I'd do 80% of my job for free (as long as the people I'm joking with don't work for the company that employs me).

I liken it to architecture/building: The day job is designing and overseeing a great McMansion. In the end, it's pretty nice, but a lot of the time is tied up in passing inspections. On the weekend, my kids (...and me) have the most amazing tree-house ever imagined.
The potential for abuse remains.
"But the real point here is not to demonstrate the feasibility of traveling from airport to airport, but to make a case for the bike for all kinds of trips, even those trips that we write off in our heads as implausible by anything but car."

So true. I really think we rely much too heavily on our cars to get anywhere, and there are some quite nice cycling routes out there. Plus it's way healthier and you feel much more accomplished, to boot ;] (at least for me)
I thought I was reading something written by Richard Stallman.
Re: most benevolent structure ever to have existed

here's a reference on internal tariffs from R.C.Dutt since it is very hard to locate online.

"The transit duties became more oppressive under
the British Rule than they had been under the
Nawabs. For the Company's power was more far-
reaching, absolute, and undisputed, and each low-
paid officer, at each Chowki or toll-house, had the
means of exercising greater oppression. The evil
grew without cessation for sixty years, and as late as
1825, Holt Mackenzie, then Territorial Secretary,
condemned it in the strongest terms. "
..

"But Holt Mackenzie spoke to deaf ears. The East
India Company would not willingly sacrifice even a re-
venue of ;!{^2 2 0,000, or any portion of it, for the prosperity
of the internal trade of India. Professing the utmost
anxiety for the material welfare of the people of India,
they were unwilling to sacrifice a shilling to promote
that welfare. If the abolition of the Inland Duties had
depended on the East India Company, the duties would
never have been abolished under their administration. "
Losing touch with your friends is your first mistake. If you rebuild those relationships or forge new ones, almost everything else will take care of itself.

As for what I do - yesterday was Stir-Fry & Starcraft, a home-cooked meal at friends' house followed by like 10 games of Starcraft. Tomorrow I'm seeing Harry Potter with a couple friends. Last week was dinner & Super 8, along with more Starcraft. The weekend before was a party at the Rainbow Mansion and July 4 fireworks. The weekend before that was some off-roading with a friend and his Jeep and a lunch date with a girl off OKCupid. Somewhere in there was a kayaking trip as well. Various other first dates have also been had in the weekdays between them too.

Edit: Okay, I just did a couple code reviews for work an hour ago. I swear, it's not my whole weekend!
Social media marketing is quite simple. ^_^ If you trying to put advertisement sections in, say, FB to promote your product - you will fail (FB will just earn your money) but if your product is so good, that several members of some thematic community will recommend it - you will get a huge boost.

That is why, for example, some hotels are always crowded with middle-class tourist while same type hotel next corner is empty and selling rooms to whores.

So, don't advertise crappy brand or service on FB - develop your brand or service first, and then customers will promote you on FB themselves.
If Primus sees their content on our site and they don't want it there, all they have to do is tell us. And we'll do exactly what you say by filtering any mention of the word Primus, take it down promptly and do everything we can to make it never happen again.
What if you have a contact who has been hacked and uses Hotmail, but you don't? (This is actually the case for me right now.)
Could this ignite a Texas land rush to occupy foreclosed homes? Possibly. But what would happen if the new occupants struck deals with the owners for them not to complain?
Just a survey in disguise. Anyway, here's my score http://testyourvocab.com/?r=35380
I think you're straying a little from the topic. Yes, company building is hard. No, that does not make it okay that Grooveshark built it's business by streaming a lot of mainstream music that it didn't, and in many cases still doesn't, have licenses for.

I didn't say you've had it easy. I said you built your company on the backs of artists' content without paying them. So, each employee went a few months without pay. Most of the artists playing on Grooveshark went (and are still going) much longer.
Disagree. Been using Spotify for 1,5 years. It is a native app on OSX, feels native and does not use a lot of resources (have you tried this app called iTunes??). They do use flash for ad's though so maybe that is the problem, I pay for the premium account which does not have advertising. For connecting to my speakers through airport express I use the excellent AirFoil app.
I've spent a good chunk of the past ten years using almost every moment reading up and learning about all things tech. This year, I decided to hold back on the tech stuff and started to read up and learn a foreign language instead (Japanese). It's been extremely refreshing to be able to do something completely new for a change. And it's had a bonus side-effect for me that I really didn't anticipate: it's actually helped me to do more quality work during the week because of these two-day sabbaticals. My mind works so much better on Monday mornings.
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TIR == LUA
Brubeck == Python
I see...so the bands are responsible for knowing about Grooveshark, policing Grooveshark, letting you know, and THEN you'll put preventative measures in place. The point is that those measures should have been in place from the get-go, because anyone in their right mind knows that Primus isn't sitting their uploading their tunes to Grooveshark.
All traffic to "Methods of Rationality" is driven by word-of-mouth. Maybe the message here is, "Deliberate social marketing doesn't work."
Drawing is actually a skill, you can learn it. It just takes time. Make 10-20 drawings a day of real life objects, and in 3-4 months you will see how much better you are.
[Determiner] [Noun] [Verb] [Preposition] [Determiner] [Noun].

"Simple" might be giving it a little too much credit.
That is awesome!!
I'm a product manager by day and I generally have a hobby that I throw myself into on weekends that may/may not be work related. Currently, for example, I alternate between coding (something I don't get to do at work) and playing video games like TF2. Once my wife gets home, however, we do stuff like rooftop gardening, going out to dinner, etc.

My past 'obsessions' (as she calls them) have included DJing 3-4 nights per week, producing Disco music, playing world of warcraft, and doing kickboxing/jujitsu.

In short, do what you feel passionate about whether it's work-related or not. If you feel like you should be spending time with your friends, go for it! If you feel like doing startup stuff, do that.

As long as it's what fuels you, work-related stuff is not a bad thing.
DIVX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX) was another important catalyst that helped Circuit City to fail. If you're interested read the link but the short of it was that it cost Circuit City over $100 million not to mention that anyone that was into home theater basically refused to shop there after this fiasco.
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HN Domain Exchange
https://spreadsheets1.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?hl=en_US...

HN Yellowpages
https://spreadsheets2.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?hl=en_US...

Ask HN Who's Hiring
https://spreadsheets3.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?hl=en_US...

HackerNews Applications and Spreadsheets by Steve Morin
https://spreadsheets4.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?authkey=CIe...
For me this article was written in reverse. For an intro I'd love to have had the 'code smell' example first to establish why I might care and when I might need this, and then dive into an example.
Fwiw, today was my third hackathon. It's good fun flexing the brain in a way that's like work and yet not at all related to what you're actually doing.
Can definitely see myself using this with jQuery Mobile. Thanks.
I design during the week and some for myself on the weekend. Almost always I go to the mountains, stay with some friends at a small college, and play guitar. I love it.
Oh, we usually ask a very simple version - function to return a reversed string that's passed as a parameter. It consists of English letters, it's not blank. You're not allowed to use the standard string reverse function/method.

It never gets to edge cases. Most people can't even write the simple version.

I'm pretty sure nobody can write the unicode-safe version during the interview, even the smartest developers I've worked with (I guess that depends on the language though).
Perfect.
And ... it seems your last link is the spreadsheet of spreadsheets! Great (and meta-great). :D
App developers withdraw from US as patent fears reach 'tipping point'
Apple Patent: System & method for performing an action on structured data
National IQ and National Productivity: The Hive Mind Across Asia [pdf]
Or you can just, y'know, pay them $5 or $10 a month.
Facebook Bans Google+ Advertising and Disables Users Account
No Doom love in this crowd? Sadness.
`anonplus.com` is presumably the home of "anon+", not the forum, which is hosted on ZetaBoards.com (another .com there too).
Thanks for collecting these all, but I must say, what a shitty and needlessly obtuse way to go about it with all these heavy spreadsheets everywhere. Surely there must be a simpler and better way?

They weren't designed to be in tandem or work together at all, but maybe some enterprising hacker can get their name out there by finding a way to use the Docs API to scrape the data from all these and host it on a pretty ajaxified site (like say, hnsheets.com or something) with a MongoDB backend and all the code on Github?

Or maybe just put it up on a wiki somewhere. Are there any other better solutions than these slow-crawling and large spreadsheets on Google Docs that anyone else can offer?

edit: how about metahn.com with subdirs or subdomains of:

/directory

for listing of persons and meta info about them, history of work done, availability for contract work, availability for starting a startup, etc

/jobs

with the different internships and jobs posted every month listed and searchable/ordered by different fields/categories

/misc

with the other links and/or editable fronts to the data like the listing of TED talks or just links to the other static documents you mentioned.

There's already a few spread out hn-related sites like hndir.com[1] for students and hnofficehours.com[2] for general help and consultation between HN'ers but maybe there's room for one more.

[1] http://www.hndir.com/

[2] http://hnofficehours.com/
Functional Dependencies in Scala
In an Indian context, I don't think it would hurt. Housing is terrible right now and a simple walk around an Indian city shows that conditions have hit rock bottom. Governments in India have been nothing but populist with no vision for the future. The complete lack of urban planning, a sensible government, and the lack of basic necessities is shocking. Despite this most government surveys act like there is nothing wrong.

For a country like India, what the Tatas are doing is simply commendable. They are trying to step in and solve some fundamental problems here and I would like to see them succeed -- if the governments and babus will allow them to.
Interesting, but not relevant.
Strangely, there's more info in their Twitter profile description than on their website (wow. Never thought I'd say that...). In its entirety:

>Over 1,000,000 products, all priced in Bitcoin. Coming July 22. Follow us if you would like a pre-launch invite.
http://www.bitcoindeals.com

I guess we won't have to wait too long for more info. But that's one of the more worthless sites I've seen in a while.
can ycombinator detect and change the domain name shown in bracket to ( plus.google.com ) instead of google.com. So that we don't get confuse between somebody's blog post and actual google's blog post. Thanks.
are you single? Get a girlfriend. That will cure your problem of having too much free time (or money)
Yes, I remember him. He's my hero.
It seems to be fairly accurate. Maybe it isn't. My score: http://testyourvocab.com/?r=35822

Edit: I just had a look at the median word count for adults who took the survey. It's around 27,000. I wonder whether that's true or not.. it seems to me that I'm lacking.
Social Entrepreneurship Ideas?
Let's brainstorm here HN.
In response to http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/07/13/the-problem-with-silicon-valley-is-itself/. What would be some ideas that would solve "real world" or social problems?
Very interesting. The details on how it works are here: http://testyourvocab.com/details.php

(My result:)
http://testyourvocab.com/?r=35795
Many times I'll take in a movie at the local theater; go shopping for odds and ends; go window shopping for some cool toys; play a round or two of disc golf; PS3 (Bad Company 2 mainly); toy around on the keyboard (I can't read music, but it's fun); bowling once every few months; go for a drive just to clear my mind. None of them are overly adventurous or anything, but they get me by. :)
Man, I haven't seen such an efficient and clean code / concepts for quite a while.

I must give it a try at the next new web project.

Having built-in support for Tornado templates will make it much easier to transform an existing one in the future.

Thank you j2lab for sharing!
I agree that spreadsheets are not optimal for reading tons of info, but I think they are easier than wikis for writing most stuff: Concurrent live editing w/out fear, no manual markup formatting, no Edit button, no Submit step... I think that was one of the points of the other thread (about the overnight book): that Google Docs and Spreadsheets are enabling some collaborative works that would have otherwise been more painful to create.

That said, Google supports lots of input + output formats. I hope you're right and somebody is hacking some cool stuff together.

edit: your proposed structure sounds really cool to me.
This really depresses me =/. How can our patent system be allowed to be so screwed up? It is seriously starting to stifle innovation.
I think I did really poorly. My score was around 21,000.
How about espn player profiles + wikipedia to track everything about politicians? Politician scorecards.
This assumes that the poster is either a straight male or lesbian female.
I don't know about published, but I have been able to measure my campaigns by measuring people's feedback to my posts, clicks on links, total sign-ups, conversions, etc.

Some things work better than others, but there is a definite feedback cycle once you have some followers/fans and provide interesting content.
No offense but this is really lame. foursquare is no big deal. I don't ever use it, don't know anyone who does. This is only a big deal if you are working at foursquare, which most people aren't.
I read it all.

If you start chanting it, it has a relaxing, self-hypnotic cadence to it, and afterwards you've found the solution to last week's bug.

Btw, do these statements have a hidden meaning:
"Some HTML compiled up the SOAP."
"A XP interpreted down the JavaScript."
If your password generation scheme doesn't allow for arbitrary restrictions on the types of characters then I think it is already not a real great scheme.
And... I just refreshed the page.
I was about the same. I was surprised when I saw the percentiles and averages at the end.