skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are less likely to be lonely in cities, not because there are more people around, but because there are more people you can connect with. If you have some sort of specialised interest or hobby that say only 1 in 1000 of the population are interested in, then if you live in a city there will be people near you who share that interest.

And with the Internet, you can find them.
A similar question: What happens to the water level if a floating iceberg melts?
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Strange then how I have a wife, mortgage and potentially kids on the way soon and I threw the 9 to 5 job out of the window. That to me is growing up! Not buckling down and being a code-monkey for someone who is clueless.
Thinking off of the top of my head, I remember:

DesqView386
OS/2
GeOS

As windowable multi-tasking PC OS's (DesqView wasn't really an OS) from the same era as Windows 3.0. And these were the "readily available" ones, countless other less memorable options existed as well.

Windows/Microsoft is a right place/right time bit of luck, coupled with a business savvy on Gates' part, story. The world of Personal Computers would have continued to evolve with or without Microsoft. And I personally believe the PC world would have likely been better off with the path things were on without Microsoft.
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I've been watching them the last few nights in australia, Venus is very bright even at twilight along with Jupiter, I hope they're just as bright in the northern hemisphere.
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Business model is the question: (1) Trade sale to spreadsheet makers. (2) Sell a plug-in to spreadsheet users. (3) Or... let users lead you to a problem that only you can solve.

I don't think it's patentable[1]. It's a cute idea, kind of obvious; I'm not sure how well it really generalizes on all the cases that come up in huge datasets. If you continue along this path, you might come up with some patentable detail. I think in the US, you can file up to a year after inventing, so public demos don't destroy novelty (IANAUSAPA).

I think your strength is less the technology than the interface, which is nicely wrapped up and works[2].

You'll get interesting user leads from this demo. Maybe: who is suffering from what problem in what specific context who really needs your help. It's hard to get this market research any other way,

I can't see a really neat or natural way to monetize it - it's just not big enough. But the world's imagination is greater than my imagination. If you stick at it, I think something will come to you. That would be really cool!

[1] a patent isn't for suing people, but to have something to sell to Microsoft or Google etc.

[2] of course, you can improve the GUI further once you know what people need - imperfection is a good thing, because a head start on the competition is worthless when you run out of track.
I've been watching them the last few nights in australia, Venus is very bright even at twilight along with Jupiter, I hope they're just as bright in the northern hemisphere.
This is great. Very useful for itunes connect reports since they changed the way they handle dates (went from 20081128 to 11/28/2008) halfway into this month. Now, I can easily change it without going through hundreds of rows.
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Hi,

I work at SeeMyWhere and might be able to help with your questions.

1. To get SeeMyWhere to work, you have to download Xtify onto your phone. We suggest you do that by visiting SeeMyWhere.com on your phone, clicking download, and following the instructions from there.

2. As currently implemented, SeeMyWhere allows you to view the location of anyone who shares his or her username with you and who has location updates activated.

3. We are planning to sync with Facebook and Twitter, but aren't interested in competing with Loopt. They're a full-blown social network where we're an extremely simple location sharing tool. Some will want all of Loopt's features, others will appreciate SeeMyWhere's simplicity.

4. Location sharing isn't for everyone. If you feel it's a step towards Big Brother, then services like ours isn't for you. However, others appreciate the convenience and interconnectivity SeeMyWhere affords.

5. Our software only works on Blackberry, Symbian, Windows Mobile, and Andoid phones.

I hope that clears up the questions that were raised. Feel free to ask further questions either in this thread or through our help link at SeeMyWhere.com.
this thread is a perfect example of why these "dumb dumb" people are insanely popular. they make statements simple enough to polarize people. as soon as you hear their latest tidbit you instantly know whether you agree or disagree.
This is one of the secrets of politics.
It might be interesting to offer repeatability to businesses. Have them create an account and save their transformations. The challenge might be how to allow the editing of a transformation in the same simple UI.
I know that. But I find that a lot of my projects end up with 5-10GB database tables that I would rather not host myself. SimpleDB could fill my need quite well if I didn't have to rewrite all my apps to work with SimpleDB and instead could just change my SQL statements to work with Amazon. Think of it like a simplistic MySQL server that never goes down or has no scaling problems. The way SimpleDB is now is good but requires significant rewrites to existing applications that use any SQL backend.
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Microsoft did not bring the personal computer into every home for a reasonable price. Apple didn't either: the II was quite expensive when compared to the Commodores and Ataris and was more a "low-end professional computer". If someone could be credited by bringing the personal computer into the home with reasonable prices, Commodore should get that honor.

If DOS weren't so popular as to turn the the PC platform into a commodity, other platform would certainly become dominant. If not, an OS like Unix, that could bridge the gap between different platforms, would emerge as the OS of choice to develop for. Microsoft tried to position itself that way with Xenix but, ultimately, saw the PC clones and DOS as viable options to take that role. They tried the same move with MSX with a much more limited success (primarily because of the PC price drop).

If Microsoft could be credited for something, it should be of limiting the diversity in the PC scene. While in the late 70s and early 80s you had at least half a dozen different platforms with different software and characteristics, today you have only one with different performance and price points. No one is crazy enough to innovate out of Windows compatibility.
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I think you can learn quite a bit from Tim Ferris (the author of the 4-hour work week). He started marketing his book way before it came out by way of:

1. A website that complimented his book

2. A blog that talk about things related to the book

3. He reached out to bloggers and built a relationship (http://text.co.uk/internet-marketing-news/how-to-market-to-b...)

4. Get interviewed. Podcasters are always looking to interview people with interesting stories and of course there are many book review sites and podcasts.

All these will build enough anticipation and hype that once your books hits the shelf you should have generated significant buzz.
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Then you should probably install MySQL on an EC2 instance with EBS attached. You need some rewriting even when you port to another relational db vendor.

Amazon is definitely not headed towards administration-free experience, it aims for flexibility instead.
possibly - though the weight would be a lot less in the water than sat on the boat (aka in air) :)
This made me sad: http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23013493...

:( I guess happiness is in how you read it.
Yeah, but then it wouldn't be called an anchor. Just as we reasonably assume the anchor is heavier than water, we can assume it will hit the bottom.
Definitely blog with excerpts. I would also considering giving away the book (as PDF) before it is published to get people reading and reviewing it.
I am going to have to say, go with Option 1. You could take the plunge today, but personally I'd rather be safe than sorry.

Another option would be to slowly phase out your old job, cut from 40 hours a week to 35 and spend that extra time working on your new business. I'm not sure if this is possible in your current situation but if it is it may be an option worth exploring.

My 2 cents.
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You don't need to understand much of what goes under the hood of your car to draw simple conclusions like "exerting pressure on the brakes slows it down".

You do need considerable understanding of how cars work if what you want is to interfere with the engine functions to, say, increase its mileage.

We do understand enough to point to CO2 emissions as the probable cause of global warming (the less heat we radiate back to space, the warmer we get - it's that simple) but to manipulate the climate to a given objective while avoiding uncontrollable side effects would require a much better understanding of how the climate really works.

As Mark Twain cleverly said, it's not what you don't know that kills you. It's what you are absolutely sure that just isn't that way. Would you take that gamble?
The damage was done by C++. Java was a step up from there.
I imagine that O'Reilly will do their RoughCuts thing with the book so that people get early access.
> During my years in Germany, I have observed the politeness and sometimes friendlyness but, after meeting new people, most of them would ask me "And, when do you go back home?".

I wouldn't read too much into it. I'm white (living in Austria) and I also get a lot of questions like that from people I just met (although it's normally "do you want to go back home?" rather than "when are you going home?").

I think that in countries for which immigration is a relatively new phenomenon (unlike the US/Canada/Australia/etc) people are in some unconscious way more reluctant to believe that it's actually possible for people to move to another country.

EDIT: how do I quote?
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Steadily growing business. Steady income that can provide me with the necessities and a few toys (about $50k/yr after taxes). Free time to deal start other projects and do what I want.
I'm from Germany and can tell you: It means that person is interested in you, your life and your background. It does NOT mean "go home!". Also, Germans probably don't expect that other people like it there.
Amen. That's a great feeling. Loneliness can give strength if taken calmly and properly.
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Point being made here is that a corporation's data can have migrated to an amorphous collection of spreadsheets scattered around the organisation. Full of bugs and errors and with no back-ups - rather like most management teams I suppose, so it's probably OK.
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... but then it reaches equilibrium again because of the streams flowing in and out of the lake.
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128 places!!?? 128 is associated with computer science (like 1024). So you could use this number in a very innovative way.

Whatever places everyone mentioned, poster, website, etc make an ad with '128' that you could put up anywhere. The first thing that comes to my mind is... "128 bytes and 128 places". Some sorta caption for your self-created campaign. Will post later if I hit upon something more creative.

Talking about the future, if you intend to get a 2nd edition and a 3rd edition on the shelf. Then I would have 256 places, 512 places and henceforth for further editions.
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Last big immigration wave is happening in Germany for almost 50 years (Austria is probably similar) and, considering negative birthrate, it's clear that in a few decades there will be less Germans (or Japanese, as both countries - ironically - lead the statistic). Under these circumstances, it doesn't seem logical to (still) ask foreigners dumb questions.

Not a few of those who asked me that question (or the version you quoted) have lived in other countries and are otherwise open minded. Still, probably subconsciously, they see someone (even if s/he's white) as some kind of different person. Yes, US/CAN/AUS are different and that's why their birthrate is sinking but it will not get negative in the coming decades.
And that's precisely why I decided to do 128 places instead of 100. It's instantly recognizable to anyone who's had to deal with base 2 as an in joke.

The full title of the book is "The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive".

Of course, for people who don't understand the joke I do explain it at one point in the book where I explain the binary system.
A good demonstration that excel needs some very-easy-to-use macro-ing capabilities. And perhaps a better business model for this stuff would be to wrap up this functionality as a $20 set of excel macros. There's a healthy market for excel macros - it should do well.

I do this kind of manipulation quite a lot, but use my lovely emacs to do it. snip snip - easy peasy. But I know it's not reasonable to expect regular excel users to use emacs.
That's a pretty interesting (and probably very effective) way to do your hiring! Most likely will be very demanding on Seth, but he'll get some second-to-none colleagues out of it at the very least.
I like this list :)

I'd be fairly happy at number four already, because I could just decide to go hang out in various countries for x months at a time without having to worry about money.
> It means that person is interested in you, your life and your background. It does NOT mean "go home!".

It doesn't mean "go home!", it's much subtler. But it surely does NOT show "interested in you, your life and your background".

> Germans probably don't expect that other people like it there.

(Danke für die Vorlage)
If you live abroad a quick test for you: Imagine, in the country where you live, you get asked the same question(s)? How would you feel? And then (on the top of that) one of the natives even says we "don't expect that you like it here". Quite subtle...
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Actually, if that anchor is attached to any sort of cabling who's density is less than that of water--such as nylon rope or cotton-based fiber attached to a rope, it all depends on the relative depth of the bottom of the lake's floor (i.e. the amount of rope payed out during the anchor's descent). For all but the thinnest cables, and shallowest lakes, the water will actually rise. For anyone who's been out on a boat in most lakes, the volume of rope attached to the anchor greatly exceeds the volume of the anchor.

If that anchor is attached to any cabling who's density is greater than that of water, the original reasoning still holds.

Btw, we're also assuming here that the lake itself has a constant volume over a sufficiently short time-scale relative to the sinking anchor. For some lakes which are essentially pond tributaries of large rivers, that is most definitely NOT the case.
I was thinking about it some more and you should probably just look for everywhere where "Nuclear Family Vacation" has been featured and contact them. They did all the marketing research already, follow in their draft!

http://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Family-Vacation-Travels-Weapon...
That was my first thought, but then I wondered if Boston's Route 128 had anything to do with it.
Numbers like these are why I think YouTube will do just fine against upstarts like Hulu.

There will always be a market for amateur video, and YT has a big enough audience to make content deals if they can't figure out how to monetize all the user content.
I read the title and for some reason envisioned a fisherman on the bank.
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The "Magic/Replace" thing should be clickable. It's confusing not to have an obvious way to go 'home'. Worse, 'dabbledb' is clickable, and sends me off to some other site. I know that other site is related, but you might want to make that more obvious with 'created with dabbledb' or something like that.
Thanks for sharing that, del/popular is on my short list of sites I visit daily. I pick out any gems and add them to my own del list.

However the content changes daily and is often a mere reflection of what is popular that day on Digg/Reddit/Techmeme etc.
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It would be particularly sweet if there were some way to more or less objectively compare the results of a rock star apprenticeship of this sort to a traditional graduate education. That would be hard to fashion, given some response bias and Seth's influence over who gets in (if anyone does).

I would bet, though, that studying under a ninja by doing some ninja-tasks with guidance from the master in a small group setting would at least nurture a certain type of brilliance more effectively.
The service you're asking for is traditionally provided by tailors.

This is rather common for dress shirts and suits. There are also online stores for dress shirts where you can submit measurements and have you shirt send to you a few weeks later. Check out http://www.tailorstore.com for an example.

However, measurement is a tricky issue: It's sounds simple but, in fact, it takes some experience to get it right.

For a long sleeve shirts, you probably have to go to a local tailor. The core problem here is to find a good one.

You may like to check http://www.styleforum.net to find sources for these kind of services. The streetware section is probably your best bet.
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> when you have first-class functions.

This isn't enough without the ability to close over the lexical environment. See Python pre 3.0, without the dictionary/list "hacks".
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Here are some more links.

The 60 minutes segment:

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4639016n

The Washington Post articles:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11...

A summary of the original Twoplustwo investigation into the UB scandal. This is much more detailed and accurate than the reports linked above:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-gossip/ub-sc...
I wonder if a provably unbiased distributed gambling application cannot be made so as to guard against the potential for such attacks.

Generating random numbers in a distributed and uncheatable way is already possible, I wonder what is holding this back.
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or for more fun try irodov(Problems in general physics). most folks who have done iit would (should ?) already be intimately aware of it :o)
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That is actually an easier version of the same question. The anchor version contains all of the same issues plus an extra curveball. If the iceberg had a giant boulder resting on top, you'd have the exact same question.
Robotics and virtual worlds?

To me, the "web" (as in web developers), is really about UI programming (html), system communications protocols (e.g. XMPP, SOAP, HTTP), and data persistence (rdbms).

Earlier on (a decade ago), there seemed to be a lot of effort spent implementing these three aspects (many home grown libraries for these three parts). Now, each of these three aspects have many prepackaged frameworks to make things much easier. IMHO there's nothing fundamentally different in these protocols than their forefathers that ruled the systems in decades earlier.

I suspect there will be a transition to new UI mechanisms (virtual worlds), data persistence systems (note the recent rise in alternative databases), and protocols to support all of that (probably related to distributed computing and SOA).

Robotics seems ready to support a large influx of software developers. This field would almost certainly require a different architecture than the traditional 'web' system as the inputs and outputs and real-time aspects seem to be significantly different for this platform. Ergo more home grown solutions initially with frameworks and toolkits to follow.

Ultimately, I think it will be more about AI and higher level information architecture problems.
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These questions bring out the detail-oriented in all of us.

- What if the fisherman throws the anchor into another lake besides the one he is in?

- What happens in a strong current when the anchor grabs the bottom? That pulls the boat down and increases water level.

I think we're so adept at nitpicking these things due to developing skills at debugging.
Not an expert on the area at all but it seems perhaps the college you go to is more important for technical professions than business ones?
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Not really since the masses never used C++, Java on the other hand saw massive adoption and did much damage to OOP.
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